Anne fine author biography websites

Although best known for children's books , she also writes for adults.

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Fine has written more than seventy children's books, including two winners of the annual Carnegie Medal and three highly commended runners-up. For her contribution as a children's writer, Fine was a runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in Fine was born and raised in Leicester and educated in neighbouring midland counties of England.

She was married to the philosopher Kit Fine until they were divorced; she has now been with her partner Dick Warren for more than twenty years. She has four sisters; her father was an electrical engineer and she grew up in Fareham, Hampshire. The eldest of the sisters is Elizabeth Arnold who also writes books for children; the three younger sisters were triplets.

She studied History and Politics at university, got married, and then her daughter Ione was born. At age 24, she wrote her first book. Describing the start of her writing career, Fine has written: "In my first daughter was born. Unable to get to the library in a snowstorm to change my library books, in desperation I sat down and started to write a novel.

Clearly this was the right job for me, for I have never stopped writing for more than a few weeks since".

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Her books for older children include Madame Doubtfire , a satirical novel [ 9 ] that Twentieth Century Fox filmed as Mrs. Doubtfire , starring Robin Williams. Her work has been translated into 45 languages. In March , Fine lent her support to the campaign Let Books Be Books , which aims to persuade publishers of children's books to stop labelling and promoting books as "for boys" or "for girls".

But even some seemingly bright and observant adults are buying into it again […] There are girls of all sorts, with all interests, and boys of all sorts with all interests.