Rae Earl

Who is Rae Earl?

Rae Earl is an English writer and broadcaster.

She is the author of the 2007 book My Fat Mad Teenage Diary, a collection of the diaries she wrote as a teenager in the late 1980s, describing the tribulations of being a boy-mad, overweight Morrissey fan living in a council house with her mother and the mother's Moroccan boyfriend in Stamford.

Earl obtained a degree from Hull University and won the University's Philip Larkin literary prize in 1994. She then worked as a copywriter in local radio before moving into radio presenting.

A television show, My Mad Fat Diary on E4 is based on her book and began airing in January 2013.