Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride & Prejudice. She has also written two collections of short stories and a stage play. In February 2005, Moggach was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her Alma Mater, the University of Bristol . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Chair of the Society of Authors, and is on the executive committee of PEN.[1]
Biography
The daughter of two writers, Charlotte and the late Richard, Deborah was one of four children -- all girls -- and has two adult children herself, Tom, 30, a teacher, and Lottie, 28, a journalist. Moggach was brought up in Hertfordshire and London, and was educated at Queen's College, London. She has lived in Pakistan and the United States. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English and trained as a teacher before going to work at Oxford University Press (OUP), where she met her (now ex-)husband Tony.
For ten years, her boyfriend was the cartoonist Mel Calman.[2] After his death in 1994, she lived for seven years with a Hungarian painter, Csaba Pasztor. She currently lives in a house overlooking Hampstead Heath in North London.
Works
Novels
- You Must Be Sisters (1978)
- Close To Home (1979)
- A Quiet Drink (1980)
- Hot Water Man (1982)
- Porky (1983)
- To Have and to Hold (1986)
- Driving in the Dark (1988)
- Stolen (1990)
- The Stand-In (1991)
- The Ex-Wives (1993)
- Seesaw (1996)
- Close Relations (1997)
- Tulip Fever (1999)
- Final Demand (2001)
- These Foolish Things (2004)
- In the Dark (2007)
Short story collections
- Smile and Other Stories (1987)
- Changing Babies and Other Stories (1995)
Short stories
- "Sunday in the Park with Henry" (2008, The Sunday Times Nov 23rd online text)
Screenplays
- Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Teleplays
- To Have and to Hold (mini-series) (1986)
- Goggle Eyes (children's series) (adaptation of an Anne Fine novel) (1993) (Won a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial)
- Seesaw (adaptation of her own novel) (1998)
- Close Relations (adaptation of her own novel) (1999)
- Love in a Cold Climate (adaptation of a Nancy Mitford novel) (2001)
- Final Demand (adaptation of her own novel) (2003)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (2008)
Stage Play
- Double-Take