"a barrister with chambers in Gray's Inn Square; and the Kurdish revolutionary leader whom Darcy defends in the movie was inspired by a real case of Muller's. The character of Shazzer was reportedly based on Sharon Maguire, who is a friend of Fielding and would become director of the film. A third book was published in October 2013, titled ""Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy"". The novel is set in present-day London; Bridget is 51, still keeping a diary, but is also immersed in texting and experimenting with social media. It is revealed in the book that Mark Darcy had"
"see merely boredom and dereliction"". Her third book, ""Mr. Lynch's Holiday,"" was published on 1 August 2013, and tells the story of an estranged father and son, both emigrants from their respective homelands, but for very different reasons. Meeting up in an unfinished (but largely abandoned) housing development in Spain, both are in search of a connection with themselves and each other. The novel garnered numerous favourable reviews for its ""brilliant wit and warmth"", its ""rare love story between a father and a son"" and its treatment of ""the absurdities of the credit boom"", ""excelling in exploring the strangeness of"
"novel in 2013, ""Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy"", which is set 14 years after the events of the second novel. Publication of the novel was set for ""Super Thursday"", in preparation for Christmas. However, a mistake occurred in the early book prints which combined sections of the novel with Sir David Jason's autobiography. Vintage explained the error as ""a Bridget moment"" and recalled the books. The fictional character ""Bridget Jones"" was named on the 2016 ""Woman's Hour"" Power List as one of seven women judged to have had the biggest impact on women's lives over the past 70 years,"
"had leukemia, but recovered. She is a stay-at-home mom and homeschools her children. The Martha Years The Charlotte Years Carmen Sandiego Mysteries Other Melissa Wiley Melissa Wiley is the pen name of Melissa Anne Peterson (born December 17, 1968). She is noted as an author of books for children, especially two book series about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors: ""The Martha Years""; and ""The Charlotte Years"". She is a contributing writer at Wired.com's GeekMom blog and cowrites a webcomic with her husband, Scott Peterson, and illustrator Chris Gugliotti. Wiley resides in San Diego, California with her husband, the comic book editor"
"the 20th century. ""Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy"" was published in autumn 2013 with record-breaking first-day sales in the UK exceeding 46,000 copies. It occupied the number one spot on ""The Sunday Times"" bestseller list for six months. In her review for ""The New York Times"" review, Sarah Lyall called the novel ""sharp and humorous"" and said that Fielding had ""allowed her heroine to grow up into someone funnier and more interesting than she was before"". Late 2016 saw the release of the third movie: ""Bridget Jones's Baby"". On 11 October 2016, and the publication of Fielding's sixth novel,"
"children Sally Snyder, Bill Snyder, Jill Goodman and Michael Goodman. The book surveys her ideas on reincarnation, karma, love, and miracles. Goodman was mother to four children: Sally and William (Bill) Snyder from her first marriage, and Jill and Michael Goodman from her second marriage. She also had at least one other child, a daughter who died in infancy. Goodman's books also reference what she referred to as the ""disappearance"" of her eldest daughter, Sally Snyder in the 1970s, and the mystery around her reported death. Linda Goodman spent much money and many years trying to find Sally, long after"
"had three daughters by this marriage, Sophia, Polly and Emma. They divorced in 1970 and she subsequently married the economist Lord Balogh (1905–1985). She continued writing novels into her eighties. She died at her London flat in January, 2001. Unusually among the leading children's writers of her time, much of her work was for younger children, at the start of their reading, notably the series of stories about Polly and the wolf, which were written for her daughter, Polly. The stories, starting with the collection ""Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf"" (1955), feature a wolf trying to catch a little"
"Melissa Wiley Melissa Wiley is the pen name of Melissa Anne Peterson (born December 17, 1968). She is noted as an author of books for children, especially two book series about Laura Ingalls Wilder's ancestors: ""The Martha Years""; and ""The Charlotte Years"". She is a contributing writer at Wired.com's GeekMom blog and cowrites a webcomic with her husband, Scott Peterson, and illustrator Chris Gugliotti. Wiley resides in San Diego, California with her husband, the comic book editor and author Scott Peterson (born ), and six children. One of her sons (born ) has hearing loss. Her oldest daughter (born )"
"100 million copies, placing her among the most popular authors in recent American history. While reaction to her early works was initially mixed, she became more popular with critics and readers in the 1980s. Her writing style and the literary content of her works have been deeply analyzed by literary commentators. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years, from 1961 until his death from brain cancer in 2002 at age 60. She and Stan had two children, Michele, who died of leukemia at age five, and Christopher, who is also an author. In addition to"
"illustrated, Konigsburg is the writer and illustrator of three 1990s picture books ""featuring her own grandchildren"": ""Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors"", ""Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions"", and ""Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's"". In 1952, she married David Konigsburg, with whom she had three children, Paul (born 1955), Laurie (born 1956), and Ross (born 1959). As of 2002, she had five grandchildren, Samuel Todd and Amy Elizabeth being the eldest children of Laurie and Ross. Her husband, David Konigsburg, died in 2001. Konigsburg died in Falls Church, Virginia, on April 19, 2013, from complications of a stroke that she had"
"grandmother. She married Victor Taylor on 1 April 1966. The couple divorced in the early 1970s and had a son. Taylor met fellow actor Peter Guinness whilst working with the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. They married in September 1996 after having been together for twenty years. Guinness appeared in a few episodes of ""The Bill"" as her lover in 2007. Alongside her acting career, Taylor is an author. Her first book, ""Too Many Mothers"", a memoir of her childhood, was published in October 2005. She was criticised by two cousins for some of the content in the book, with one of"
"she was named ""teacher of the year"" by her colleagues. It was at this time that she decided to get serious about her writing and completed a novel. Twelve years later, she retired from teaching to write full-time. She married her husband Gene when they were in their twenties, and he brought three children to the marriage. They went on to have three children of their own, and as they were set to retire, adopted from Ukraine in 2008 and 2009. She is also active in orphan ministry. They live outside Seminole, Oklahoma. She cites Gone With the Wind as"
"fidelity for ""The Moth Radio Hour"", which was recorded in November 2015, and aired in September 2016. As of 2014, Green lived in Westport, Connecticut, with her second husband, investment adviser Ian Warburg. Green has four children from her first marriage, and two stepchildren. Jane Green (author) Jane Green, born in 1968, also known by her married name, Jane Green Warburg, is an English-born American author whose works of fiction are American and international bestsellers. As of 2014, Green's books had sold in excess of 10 million copies globally, with translations of them appearing in thirty-one languages, making her a"
"""One to the Wolves"", was published in 2013 with a foreword by Ann Rule. Duncan had three children with her first husband, Joseph Cardozo: daughters Robin and Kerry, and son Brett. Her first marriage ended in divorce in 1962. In 1965 she married Donald Arquette, an electrical engineer; they had two children: son Donald Junior and daughter Kaitlyn (d. 1989). Her three oldest children all took her second husband's name. In 1989 the youngest of Duncan's children, Kaitlyn Arquette, was murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ""Who Killed My Daughter?"" relates fact and conjecture about the still unsolved case. Duncan had"
"with their mother for the first time in 30 years. Lindsay Smallbone, the former husband of George London's wife, sued the authors for defamation in 2013 over the book's description of Mr Smallbone as sexually perverse, voyeuristic and otherwise deviant. The jury found that the material was published recklessly, and awarded NZ$270,000 in damages. The win was short-lived however. On the next working day the judge recalled the verdict and eventually ordered a full retrial after overturning the jury decision. Smallbone appealed to the Court of Appeal and then the Supreme Court but lost both appeals. Five of Wishart's books—""The"
"in The Guardian calls these ""brilliant"". In 1988 O'Shea published a second children's book, ""Finn Mac Cool and the Small Men of Deeds"", through the publisher Holiday. It was a retelling of folklore tales, illustrated by Stephen Lavis. In 1987 Horn Book Magazine included it in their annual list of notable children's books, giving it a Horn Book Fanfare Best books of the year award. In 1999 she published her third (and final) book, ""The Magic Bottle"" (Scholastic). It was also illustrated by Lavis. She married JJ (Jack) O'Shea in 1953, but they separated in 1962. They had one son,"
"the book as it scrolls down his computer screen can be viewed online. ""Mind"" presents these practical tools of reason: Cox has three children (Catherine, Lori, and Steven), six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren from his marriage to Patricia Ann Reed, a stepdaughter (Michelle) from his marriage to Brigitte Zickbauer, and a stepdaughter (Naomi) from his current marriage to artist Helen Werner Cox. They live in Long Beach, California. William John Cox William John (Billy Jack) Cox (born 1941) is an American public interest lawyer, author, philosopher, and political activist. The eighth and last child of a pioneer family that included"
"from New York City to Connecticut in her 40s, Shapiro recounts her ""vestigial feeling"" connecting her to Judaism was reawakened and that she ""could no more reject my Judaism than reject being female, or being a mother, or a wife, or a writer, or any of the things that most define me"". On October 20, 2013, she appeared on Oprah Winfrey's ""Super Soul Sunday"" on the Oprah Winfrey Network to discuss Shapiro's book ""Devotion"". Since 1997 she has been married to screenwriter Michael Maren. They have one child. In ""The New York Times Book Review"" preparatory to the publication of"
"Dear? Life, Laughs, and Lasagna"". The book was published by St. Martin's Press in 2003, and serves as a memoir as well as a collection of some of Roberts' recipes. Roberts married Michael Cannata in 1956; they divorced in 1962. Their son, Michael Cannata, Jr. (born 1957) is her only child. She had three grandchildren: Kelsey, Andrew and Devon. Her second husband was writer William Goyen and they were married from 1963 until his death from leukemia in 1983. Roberts died in Los Angeles, California, on the morning of April 17, 2016 in her sleep following a stroke. She was"
"Trinity College, Cambridge. She was a successful writer of children's literature in her own right, including ""Young Winter's Tales"", ""Student Body"" (1950), and ""Dead Indeed"" (1955). The last two were detective stories, based on her time at Swarthmore College and Viking Press, respectively. She married Alan Lloyd Hodgkin in 1944; they had met while he was working at the Rockefeller Institute in 1938. They had three daughters and one son. Jonathan Hodgkin became a molecular biologist at Cambridge University. Deborah Hodgkin is a psychologist. Her husband won the Nobel Prize for biology in 1963. She died on 11 March 2015"
"managed to finish both her master's degree, and her Ph.D. Gildiner lives in Toronto with her husband of 40 years, Michael, and their three sons. Gildiner wrote the biographical trilogy ""Too Close to the Falls"", ""After the Falls"", and ""Coming Ashore"", covering, respectively, her life from age 4 to 12, age 12 to 21, and age 21 to 27. One review of ""After the Falls"" described Gildener's memoir as ""refreshingly honest, touching and witty"" and ""vital and earnest, with a wicked sense of humour, she is trouble with a heart."" In 2015, Buffalo News author Anne Neville published concerns about"
"The Karma Twist"" released in September 2011. In 2012, on her birthday, 12-12-12, ""Conversations with the Water: A Memoir of Cultivating Hope"", was released, Michelle's latest book, one that chronicles her view of her sister's death nearly 20 years later, her divorce, and learning to surf at age 39. On June 13, 2015, she married Gregory Rusk, the grandson of former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the son of David Rusk, former mayor of Albuquerque. As a gift to their wedding guests, Michelle wrote a novel called ""The Green Dress"" and it was released on the day of the"
"of her son William Coit III (played by Neil Patrick Harris). The movie is based on the Stephen Singular book ""Charmed to Death"". Coit's exploits have been recounted by several true-crime documentary television series: Jill Coit Jill Coit (born June 11, 1943 or 1944) is an American convicted murderer. A con artist and serial bigamist who has been married 11 times to nine different men, Coit was convicted of killing her eighth husband in 1993 and is also suspected of killing her third husband in 1972. Coit is serving a life sentence with no possibility of parole at the Denver"
"rights reporting in Mexico and Nicaragua; the George Polk Award and the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, in 1986, for coverage of the Philippines. Ellison lives in San Anselmo, California and is married to Jack Epstein, foreign editor at the ""San Francisco Chronicle"". They have two sons, Joey and Joshua Epstein. In 2007, then-48-year-old Ellison and her then-12-year-old son ""Buzz,"" were diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and had a tumultuous relationship which Ellison describes in her memoir ""Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention"" (2010). Katherine Ellison Katherine Ellison (born August 19, 1957) is an American author. Ellison has authored"
"human society. By chance, Leadford falls in with a Cabinet minister and briefly becomes his secretary. Book III begins with an intense discussion by Verrall, Leadford, and Nettie, about their future. Although Nettie wants to establish a ""ménage à trois"", Leadford and Verrall reject the idea, and Leadford devotes himself to his mother until her death. Leadford marries Anna, who has been helping care for his mother, and they have a son; but soon thereafter Nettie contacts Leadford. In the epilogue, the 72-year-old Leadford reveals that he, Nettie, Verrall, and Anna were from then on ""very close, you understand, we"
"suffering that surrounded her. She also spoke of her experience making ""Our Daily Bread"" and working for King Vidor, whom she described as a conservative who thought that people should willingly help each other without government interference. In December 1999, at the age of 90, she appeared in the magazine ""Vanity Fair"" in an article about blacklist survivors. Morley was married to director Charles Vidor from 1932 until 1943. They met on the set of ""Man About Town"", in which Morley played the female lead, and Vidor was co-director. Vidor and Morley had a son, Michael Karoly, who was born"
"be a trilogy. This book was released on October 13, 2009. The next book, called ""The Bridge to Neverland"", was published in 2011. The story is set in 1902, 23 years after the events of Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Molly Aster, now Molly Darling, is married to George Darling and a mother of three: Wendy, John, and Michael. Her mother Louise has been deceased for a while and her father Leonard is very ill. One evening, she is visited by one of the original Lost Boys: James, who now works for Scotland Yard. He informs Molly about his"
"second novel for adults, ""My Name is Memory"" was published in 2010 and has been optioned for film. This was followed by a young-adult time travel novel, ""The Here and Now"", published in April 2014. She lives in New York City with her artist husband, Jacob Collins, and children Nathaniel, Samuel, Susannah, and Isaiah. Brashares mainly writes for young adults. Besides the four ""Sisterhood"" books and their two companion books, ""3 Willows"" and ""Sisterhood Everlasting"", she has contributed two 80-page biographies to the nonfiction book series ""Techies"" and has published two novels for adults. She won the Indies Choice Book"
"divorced in 1970, and Bach spent years without seeing his children. Richard and Bette's son Jonathan, named after the titular character in Bach's bestseller, ""Jonathan Livingston Seagull,"" is a software engineer and journalist. He wrote the 1993 book ""Above the Clouds,"" about growing up without knowing his father and then later meeting him as a college student. Richard gave his approval, although he noted that it included some personal history he would ""rather not see in print."" Their other children are Robert, a commercial airline pilot; Kristel; James Marcus Bach, a computer expert and writer; Erika; and their youngest daughter,"
"he remarried and had another child. Today, Karen continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. Her children released a book in 2004, titled ""On the Run: A Mafia Childhood"", that tells their own version of their experience with the Mafia. In the book, Gregg and Gina discuss how their maternal grandparents, and Karen's two younger sisters, Sandy and Adrianne helped take care of them, when Karen and Henry were out dealing in crime. Henry died on June 12, 2012, at the age of 69, from heart failure in Los Angeles."
"books were the ""Very English Mysteries"", of which she only completed two of a planned series before her death in 2016 (""A Man of Some Repute"" and ""A Question of Inheritance"", along with the novella ""A Youthful Indiscretion""). These were set in the fictional West Country city of Selchester, with invalided MI6 agent Hugo Hawksworth as the lead character. The third book, ""A Matter of Loyalty"", was written from her notes by her son Anselm Audley, also a writer, and published in October 2017. Her books were translated into a number of languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Slovak."
"the Park Theatre, London in 2016 and 2017. Other theatrical work includes: Great Expectations (Vaudeville Theatre); Canary (Liverpool Everyman / Hampstead Theatre); Dreams of Violence (Soho Theatre) and ""La Cage aux Folles"" (Playhouse Theatre). Wilcox has also performed radio and voiceover work and most recently read the audiobook ""Three Things About Elsi""e written by Joanna Cannon. This continues a relationship that began last year when Paula recorded Joanna’s first novel ""The Trouble With Goats and Sheep"". Wilcox was married to actor Derek Seaton from 1969 to 1979 (his death). She later married Nelson ""Skip"" Riddle, son of the bandleader and"
"47 years of marriage, Belafonte and Robinson got a divorce. In April 2008, Belafonte married photographer Pamela Frank. Belafonte has 5 grandchildren, Rachel and Brian through his children with Marguerite Byrd, and Maria, Sarafina, and Amadeus through his children with Julie Robinson. In October 1998, Belafonte contributed a letter to Liv Ullmann's book ""Letter to My Grandchild"". On January 29, 2013, Belafonte was the Keynote Speaker and 2013 Honoree for the MLK Celebration Series at the Rhode Island School of Design. Belafonte used his career and experiences with Dr. King to speak on the role of artists as activists. Belafonte"