Jacqueline Wilson
Novelist, Author
1945 –
Who is Jacqueline Wilson?
Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an English writer known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness. Addressing such issues has made her controversial because her readers are young. From 2005 to 2007 she was British Children's Laureate. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Wilson is U.K. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014.
Wilson is the author of many book series. Her best known work may be the Tracy Beaker series, inaugurated in 1991 by The Story of Tracy Beaker. There have been three sequels and four CBBC television adaptations: The Story of Tracy Beaker, Tracy Beaker Returns, The Dumping Ground and The Tracy Beaker Survival Files''.
Several other television adaptations of Wilson's work have been released.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1945
Bath - Also known as
- Jacqueline Wilson OBE
- Dame Jacqueline Wilson
- Jackie
- Jacqueline Aitken
- Jacky Daydream
- Parents
- Spouses
- William Miller Wilson
(1965 - 2004)
- William Miller Wilson
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Coombe Girls' School
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on July 23, 2013
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