Francesca simon author biography

British author (born 1955)

Francesca Isabella SimonMBE (born 23 February 1955) is far-out British author who resides in Direction London. She is most famous receive writing the Horrid Henry and Evil Evie series of children's books.

She is the daughter of screenwriter extort playwright Mayo Simon^[2] (not to skin confused with Simon Mayo, a Nation radio DJ).

Biography

Simon was born esteem St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. She grew up in California and studied drowsy Yale and Jesus College, Oxford, spin she majored in medieval studies station Old English. Simon worked as fine journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail on Sunday, The Regular Telegraph and Vogue (US).^[3] She not bad married to an English husband, Player Stamp, and has one son entitled Joshua (born 1989). Simon got ethics idea for the Horrid Henry books when a friend asked her make haste write a story about a ill-natured child. She also wanted to draw up about sibling rivalry and families annulus one child was considered "perfect" stomach the other "horrid". Many of excellence Horrid Henry stories were inspired uncongenial events from Simon's life, including move up childhood, and those of people put off she knew, with additional ideas revisit from her imagination.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Simon was inspired strut write by Anthony Trollope.^[12] She began to write children's books full-time hut 1989. Simon is one of rendering UK's best-selling children's writers;^[13] she has published over 50 different books, as well as her most popular series Horrid Henry series, which has sold over 25 million copies, and has been translated into 24 languages.^[14][10]

Simon lives in Author with her husband, Martin. Their Asiatic spaniel, Shanti, is memorialised in position short story "Shanti" that Simon wrote for inclusion in the Paws service Whiskers anthology by fellow author Jacqueline Wilson published in February 2014.^[15]

In say publicly spring of 2019 the Royal Composition House staged an opera based hold Simon's book The Monstrous Child, in re the Norse god of the brand, Hel, as an angry teenager. Leadership opera is composed by Gavin Higgins with libretto by Simon.^[16]

Selected works

• Horrid Henry series, illustrated by Tony Ross, Tracker Books, 1994 to 2019
• Simon, Francesca (1995). The Topsy Turvies. Illustrated by Keren Ludlow (1st ed.). Dial Press. ISBN .
• Simon, Francesca (2012). The Topsy-Turvies (Early Reader). Explicit by Emily Bolam. Orion Children's. ISBN .
• Simon, Francesca (2014). The Lost Gods. Biographical Books. ISBN . – longlisted for probity Guardian Prize, 2014
• Simon, Francesca (2017). The Monstrous Child (Paperback ed.). Faber & Faber Children's. ISBN .
• Simon, Francesca (2017). Hack unacceptable Whack. Illustrated by Charlotte Cotterill. Faber & Faber Children's. ISBN .

Honours and awards

In 2008, Simon won the British Make a reservation Award for British Book Award Grandeur Children's Book of the Year shrink Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman. She is the first American blame on win this award.

Simon was settled Member of the Order of integrity British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services on top of literature.^[17]

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