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Jacqueline
Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood
in Kingston-on-Thames.
She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first "novel"
when
she was nine, filling countless Woolworths' exercise books
as she grew up. She
started work at a publishers and then went on to work as
a journalist for D.C.
Thomson in Scotland after she had an article published in
JACKIE magazine. Since
having her daughter, Emma she has been writing full time.
Jacqueline's biggest passion and/or worst vice is buying
books. She has over 15,000 books crammed into every corner
of her small house - and they've started to creep across
the carpets. Her favourite holiday place is Hay-On-Wye,
which has about twenty secondhand bookshops.
Jacqueline has written a number of books for Transworld
including Glubbslyme, The Story of Tracy Beaker,
The Suitcase Kid, The Mum Minder, The Bed and Breakfast
Star, Cliffhanger, Double Act, Bad Girls, The Lottie Project,
The Illustrated Mum and a trilogy for slightly
older readers comprising Girls in Love, Girls
Under Pressure and Girls Out Late. Her most recent
book is Vicky Angel. She has also written a series of crime
novels and several plays which have been broadcast on Radio
4.
Jacqueline
has been on countless shortlists and has won several awards,
including The Young Telegraph/Fully Booked Award for The
Bed and Breakfast Star, the Smarties Prize, the Sheffield
Children's Book Award and the Children's Book Award for
Double Act. The Illustrated Mum was shortlisted for
the 1999 Whitbread Children's Book and has won the 1999
Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and
the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.
Over 4 million copies of her books have now been sold in
the UK alone and approximately 50 000 copies of her books
are sold each month. In a recent poll to find the Nation's
Favourite Children's Book run by the BBC programme, Bookworm
Double Act was voted 10th and was the only contemporary
title in the top ten. Jacqueline herself was voted 4th in
the Treasure Islands Favourite Children's Author poll.
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