Miss Joanna Trollope, OBE

Career: writer; Info Res Dept FO 1965-67, English teacher in various schs, feature writer Harpers and Queen, freelance work for maj newspapers; chair Dept of Nat Heritage Advsy Ctee on Nat Reading Initiative 1996-97, memb Govt Ctee for Nat Year of Reading 1997-, memb Advsy Bd Costa Awards (judge 2002, chair 2007), judge Melissa Nathan Award 2005-11, chair Orange Prize 2012, judge Sunday Times Short Story Award; fndr and co-tstee Joanna Trollope Charitable Tst; pres March Fndn, ambass Meningitis Tst, ambass RNIB (especially Talking Books), memb Campaign Bd St Hugh's Coll Oxford 1996-; memb: Soc of Authors (memb Cncl), Trollope Soc, Romantic Novelists' Assoc, West Country Writers' Assoc, Int PEN; chair Nat Portrait Gallery Fund Raising Gala 2009; patron: Mulberry Bush Sch Standlake, Dementia UK, Gloucs Community Fndn 1998-2008; DL Gloucs 2002-08

Books and Publications: Parson Harding's Daughter (Historical Novel of the Year, 1980), The Taverners' Place (1986), Britannia's Daughters (non-fiction, 1983), The Choir (1988), A Village Affair (1989), A Passionate Man (1990), The Rector's Wife (1991), The Men and the Girls (1992), A Spanish Lover (1993), The Best of Friends (1995), A Country Habit - An Anthology (ed and introduction, 1993), Next of Kin (1996), Other People's Children (1998), Marrying the Mistress (2001), Girl From the South (2002), Brother and Sister (2004), The Book Boy (2006), Second Honeymoon (2006), Friday Nights (2008), The Other Family (2010), Daughters in Law (2011), The Soldier's Wife (2012); under pseudonym Caroline Harvey: Legacy of Love (1992), A Second Legacy (1993), A Castle in Italy (1993), Parson Harding's Daughter (reissue, Corgi, 1995), The Steps of the Sun (1996), The Brass Dolphin (1997)