Which author who created Adrian Mole died last month aged 68?
"Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Published in 2004 by Penguin Books, Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction is Sue Townsend's sixth full Adrian Mole novel (as opposed to ""Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians"" and the Guardian serial). It is set in 2002/3 and Adrian is 33¾ years of age. The life of the protagonist is covered for one year, with a short epilogue that jumps to a time one year later (to 2004). The title of the book refers to the weapons of mass destruction that were used as justification for the Iraq War"
"Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which"
"upset to hear that Sue Townsend has died. One of the warmest, funniest and wisest people I ever met"". Townsend was survived by her husband, four children and ten grandchildren. Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other"
"an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University in Leicester. He was assassinated by a rogue Nottingham hit squad in 2017. The accused later cited a argument over donuts in the street as the reason for the death. Bali Rai has contributed short stories to a number of anthologies, including: Bali Rai Bali Rai (born 30 October 1971) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction. Rai was born in Leicester in 1971, to Punjabi parents. At the age of eleven, he read ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" by Sue Townsend, which inspired him to take up writing."
"and frustrated point of view, as well as depictions of his experiences of unemployment and public spending cutbacks, both major political issues at the time. In dealing with political events, a constant plot device is that Adrian makes confident predictions and statements that are known to be wrong by the reader, ranging from belief in the Hitler Diaries to an Iraqi victory in the Gulf War and the existence of their weapons of mass destruction. Adrian Albert Mole is born 2 April 1967, and grows up with his parents in the city of Leicester; he moves to Ashby-de-la-Zouch in England's"
"Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including ""Watchmen"", ""V for Vendetta"", ""The Ballad of Halo Jones"" and ""From Hell"". Regarded by some as the best graphic novel writer in history, he is widely recognised among his peers and critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in"
"These stories were written by Adrian Doyle and John Dickson Carr except as stated. A number (at least six) of the Holmes stories were written by Adrian solely. Adrian Conan Doyle Adrian Malcolm Conan Doyle (19 November 19103 June 1970) was the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his second wife Jean, Lady Doyle or Lady Conan Doyle. He had two siblings, sister Jean and brother Denis, as well as two half-siblings, sister Mary and brother Kingsley. Adrian Conan Doyle has been depicted as a race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer. Biographer Andrew Lycett calls him a"
"is in control, the world is rudderless."" Alan Moore Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including ""Watchmen"", ""V for Vendetta"", ""The Ballad of Halo Jones"" and ""From Hell"". Regarded by some as the best graphic novel writer in history, he is widely recognised among his peers and critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed. Moore started writing"
"and thirty eight minutes. He took with him a copy of ""Cosmic Songs"" (1878) by the Czech poet Jan Neruda. Feustel was a Mission Specialist on the STS-134 mission, during which he performed three more spacewalks. During this mission Feustel took a soft toy of the comic character Mole to space. In July 2011 Feustel and his family flew to Czech Republic to give that Mole to his creator the Czech animator and illustrator Zdeněk Miler. He was very happy and thanked Feustel with an artwork of him. Just four months later Miler died at the age of 90 years."
"(1966-1995), daughter of the artist Pauline Boty, following the death of her father, literary agent Clive Goodwin, in 1978. Following Boty Goodwin's death from a heroin overdose, Mitchell wrote the poem 'Especially when it snows' in her memory. Adrian Mitchell Adrian Mitchell FRSL (24 October 1932 – 20 December 2008) was an English poet, novelist and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British Left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's anti-Bomb movement. The critic Kenneth Tynan called him ""the British Mayakovsky"". Mitchell sought in his work to counteract"
"Letters"" (Selection and Life), and was a contributor to ""Punch"" magazine. Ross died of heart failure at his home in Kensington, London on 11 September 1933 at the age of 73. Ross contributed lyrics to the following musicals and comic operas, often in collaboration with other lyricists: Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes (23 December 1859 – 11 September 1933), better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the most important lyricist of the British stage during"
"Bali Rai Bali Rai (born 30 October 1971) is an English author of children's and young adult fiction. Rai was born in Leicester in 1971, to Punjabi parents. At the age of eleven, he read ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" by Sue Townsend, which inspired him to take up writing. He has also cited Roald Dahl as an early influence on his writing. He attended Judgemeadow Community College, moving to Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College for sixth form. In 1991, Rai moved to London to study at Southbank University, graduating with a 2:1 in Politics. He stayed in"
"Adrian Cole (writer) Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the ""Omaran Saga"" and ""Star Requiem"" series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army, and Adrian spent three years with his family in Malaya when he was a young child, before settling back in Devon. He became interested in fantasy and science fiction at an early age, through ""Tarzan of the Apes"", ""King Solomon's Mines"","
"work. After suffering kidney failure, she underwent dialysis and in September 2009 she received a kidney from her elder son Sean, after a two-year wait for a donor. She also had degenerative arthritis, which left her wheelchair-bound. By this time, she was dictating to Sean, who worked as her typist. Surgery was carried out at Leicester General Hospital and Townsend spoke to the BBC about her illness on an appeal for National Kidney Day. Townsend died at her home on 10 April 2014 following a stroke. Stephen Mangan, who portrayed Adrian Mole in the , stated that he was ""greatly"
"declining health might make this plan impossible. Townsend died on 10 April 2014. Her British publisher said the writer had been working on a new Adrian Mole story at the time of her death. The book, which had the working title ""Pandora's Box"", was due for publication later in 2014. A spokesman for Michael Joseph said: ""We can confirm that Sue was in the middle of writing the book. Her editor had seen what she describes as 'a few wonderful pages'. It was supposed to be out this autumn and we are very sad that we won't be able to"
"Thomas Moore Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of ""The Minstrel Boy"" and ""The Last Rose of Summer"". As Lord Byron's named literary executor, along with John Murray, Moore was responsible for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. From a relatively early age Moore showed an interest in music and other performing arts. He sometimes appeared in musical plays with his friends, such as ""The Poor Soldier"" by John O'Keeffe (music"
"Rhys Adrian’s more than 30 plays for radio, including the Prix Italia winning ""Evelyn"" (1970) and Prix Futura winning ""The Clerks"" (1979). (Michael Bakewell directed five of Adrian’s plays, and Ronald Mason directed two.) He commissioned and directed Sue Townsend’s first Mole script for BBC Radio 4, when the character was still known as Nigel, in ""The Diary of Nigel Mole Aged 13 ¾"", and he then entered into a correspondence with the fictional Adrian who submitted his poetry efforts to Tydeman at the BBC. It was Tydeman who brought Townsend together with the publisher Methuen after that first broadcast."
"books and humor books for various authors. John Blair Moore's daughter reported on Facebook in August 2018, that her father had died on August 5, 2018, after 12 days of hospitalization. John Blair Moore John Blair Moore (1948 – August 5, 2018) was an American comic book writer/artist best known for ""Invaders from Home"", published in six issues in 1990 by Piranha Press. He was married with two daughters. Moore spent 10 years writing and occasionally drawing stories for Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Roger Rabbit and Darkwing Duck, first for Disney Comics, briefly for Marvel Comics,"
"this inn but includes excursions into the 16th, 18th and 19th century episodes (also occurring in The Bull) which reflect the obsessions of the central character. Work for ""2000 AD"" include: Steve Moore (comics) Steve Moore (11 June 1949 – 16 March 2014) was a British comics writer. Moore was credited with showing writer Alan Moore (no relation), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. His career has subsequently been quite closely linked with the more famous Moore – the pair collaborated under pseudonyms (Steve's pseudonym was ""Pedro Henry"", Alan's was ""Curt Vile"") on strips for ""Sounds"" magazine,"
"the publishers Methuen heard the broadcast and commissioned Townsend to write the first book, ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" which came out in September of that year. The publisher insisted on the change of name because of the similarity to Nigel Molesworth, the schoolboy character created by Ronald Searle and Geoffrey Willans. A month after the book's appearance it had topped the best seller list and had sold a million copies after a year. Adapted as a play, the stage version premiéred in Leicester and ran at Wyndham's Theatre for more than two years. The first two"
"Steve Moore (comics) Steve Moore (11 June 1949 – 16 March 2014) was a British comics writer. Moore was credited with showing writer Alan Moore (no relation), then a struggling cartoonist, how to write comic scripts. His career has subsequently been quite closely linked with the more famous Moore – the pair collaborated under pseudonyms (Steve's pseudonym was ""Pedro Henry"", Alan's was ""Curt Vile"") on strips for ""Sounds"" magazine, including one which introduced the character Axel Pressbutton, who was later to feature in the ""Warrior"" anthology comic, as well as a standalone series published by Eclipse Comics. Moore has long"
"are marked with a ""(CC)"" and those from ""The Other Mary Shelley"" with an ""(OMS)"". Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter"
"Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes (23 December 1859 – 11 September 1933), better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the most important lyricist of the British stage during a career that spanned five decades. At a time when few shows had long runs, nineteen of his West End shows ran for over 400 performances. Starting out in the late 1880s, Ross wrote the lyrics for the earliest British musical theatre hits, including ""In Town"" (1892),"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"Stan Lee Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, and publisher who was active from the 1940s to the 2010s. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics industry. In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writer/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created numerous popular fictional characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk,"
"Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"" (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. After Wollstonecraft's death less than a month after her daughter Mary was born, Mary was raised by Godwin, who was able to provide his daughter"
"Victor Milan Victor Woodward Milán (August 3, 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma – February 13, 2018 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) was an American writer known for libertarian science fiction and an interest in cybernetics. In 1986 he won the Prometheus Award for ""Cybernetic Samurai"". He has also written several shared universe works for the Forgotten Realms, ""Star Trek"", ""BattleTech"" and ""Wild Cards"" series. He has also written books under the pseudonyms Richard Austin (Jove Books ""The Guardians"" series), Robert Baron (Jove Books ""Stormrider"" series), and S. L. Hunter (""Steele"" series with Simon Hawke, who used the pen name J. D. Masters)."
"the former Mary Linwood Secondary School. The principal sponsor of this Academy is the Church of England. The Council transferred the site of the former secondary school (Mary Linwood) to the sponsors. Samworth, Leicester's first City Academy, was built on the site of the old Mary Linwood school and completed in September, 2007. The children of author Sue Townsend attended the school during the late 1970s and early 1980s; their experiences influenced her highly successful Adrian Mole books. ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole"" was reputedly based on Sue Townsend's son's experiences at the school. Several of the teachers who"
"Maurice Leblanc Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 November 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes. Leblanc was born in Rouen, Normandy, where he was educated at Lycée Pierre-Corneille. After studying in several countries and dropping out of law school, he settled in Paris and began to write fiction, both short crime stories and longer novels. The latter, heavily influenced by writers like Gustave Flaubert"
"worked as a librarian, an administrator in education, and Director of Resources in a large secondary college in the town of Bideford, North Devon, where he lives with his wife Judy, son Sam, and daughter Katia in an old blacksmith's forge. Adrian Cole (writer) Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the ""Omaran Saga"" and ""Star Requiem"" series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army,"
"and trained as a nurse and is now a psychiatric nurse at the Berrywood Hospital in Northampton. The couple divorced in 1998. In 1998 he subsequently married Joanne Young, a nursing colleague, and continues to live in Northampton. He subsequently divorced Joanne and married Pina Ruocco. Gian Sammarco Giancarlo ""Gian"" Sammarco (born 30th January 1970) is a former child actor best known for playing the title role in the television dramatisations of ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾"" (1985) and its sequel, ""The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole"" (1987). Born in Northampton, England, the son of Jacqueline and"
"his death. A stage adaptation was produced in London in 2001. Oscar Moore (novelist) Oscar Moore (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996) was a British journalist and the author of one novel, ""A Matter of Life and Sex"", published in 1991 originally under the pseudonym Alec F. Moran (an anagram for ""roman à clef""). He grew up in London and was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, going on to read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1982. He worked as a journalist and critic, under his own name and various pseudonyms, to such magazines"
"Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. Poe is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction."