Biographie de Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but has spent most of her life in Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first "novel" when she was nine, filling countless Woolworth's exercise books as she grew up. She started work at a publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which was named after her) before turning to writing fiction full-time.
Since 1990 Jacqueline has written prolifically for children and bas won many of the UK's top awards for children's books, including the Smarties Prize in 2000 and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Children's Book of the Year in 1999. Jacqueline was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, in Golden Jubilee Year, 2002. Over 10 million copies of Jacqueline's books have now been sold in the UK and approximately 50,000 copies of her books are sold each month.
An avid reader herself, Jacqueline has a personal collection of more than 15,000 books. She has one grown-up daughter..