Shirley Conran
Shirley Conran | |
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Born | Shirley Pearce 21 September 1932 |
Spouse | Terence Conran 1955-1962 ( divorced) ( 2 children) |
Children | Sebastian Conran, Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran |
Shirley Conran (born 21 September 1932) is a British novelist and journalist.
Career
Conran has written for Vanity Fair, women's editor of The Daily Mail and The Observer.[citation needed] Published in 1982, her book Lace spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, reaching as high as No. 6,[1][2] and was adapted into a 1980s US miniseries.[3]
Her book, Lace, was published by Simon & Schuster and is reported to be the original source for the marketing tag line, "Which one of you bitches is my mother?"[3]
Personal life
Conran has been married to Sir Terence Conran; they are the parents of the fashion designer Jasper Conran. In 2009, she wrote that she suffered from ME.[4] Conran has homes in France and London, and lived in Monaco for several years.[5] She founded the educational non-profit Maths Action.[6]
Works
Fiction
- Lace (Simon & Schuster, 1982)
- Lace 2 (1985)
- The Complete Story (omnibus, 1986)
- Savages (1987, movie rights owned by Warner Brothers but never made)
- Crimson (1992)
- Tiger Eyes (1994)
- The Revenge (aka Revenge of Mimi Quinn, 1998)
- The Amazing Umbrella Shop (1990)
Non-fiction
- Superwoman (1975), see Superwoman (sociology)
- Superwoman 2 (1977)
- Futurewoman: How to Survive Life After Thirty (1979)
- Superwoman in Action (1979)
- The Magic Garden (1983)
- Down with Superwoman: For Everyone Who Hates Housework (1990)
- Money Stuff (2014)
Other
- The Magic Garden was adapted as a computer program and published by Acornsoft for the BBC Micro as Shirley Conran's Magic Garden.
References
- ^ "The New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction" (PDF). Hawes.com. 21 November 1982. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
- ^ "Shirley Conran". fantasticfiction.co.uk.
- ^ a b Korda, Michael (1999). Another Life: A Memoir of Other People. Random House. pp. 477–479. ISBN 9780679456599.
- ^ Conran, Shirley (2009) The Optimum Health Clinic Foundation Retrieved 20 Feb 2017
- ^ Sarah Boseley, 31 May 1995, "Conran topless for a cause.", The Guardian, pg. 4
- ^ "About Maths Action". mathsaction.org.uk. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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