Daisy Goodwin
Novelist, Author
1961 –
Who is Daisy Goodwin?
Daisy Georgia Goodwin is a British television producer, poetry anthologist and novelist.
She is the daughter of film producer Richard B. Goodwin and interior decorator Jocasta Innes. Her half-brother is the writer Jason Goodwin, whom her father adopted.
After attending Westminster School and Queen's College, London, Goodwin studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge and attended Columbia Film School before joining the BBC as a trainee arts producer in 1985. In 1998, she moved to Talkback Productions as head of factual programmes, and in 2005, founded Silver River Productions. Her first novel, My Last Duchess, was published in the UK in August 2010 and, under the title The American Heiress, in the U.S. and Canada in June 2011. She has also published eight poetry anthologies and a memoir entitled Silver River, and was chairman of the judging panel for the 2010 Orange Prize for women's fiction. She has presented television shows including Essential Poems and Reader, I Married Him.
Goodwin is married to Marcus Wilford, an ABC TV executive; they have two daughters. She appeared as part of the winning Trinity College, Cambridge team on the Christmas University Challenge BBC2, 27 December 2011. In 2012, she appeared on a Children in Need special episode of "Only Connect" alongside Charlie Higson and Matthew Parris.
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- Dec 19, 1961
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- United Kingdom
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- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Westminster School
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on July 23, 2013
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