- Anna Maxted
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name = Anna Maxted
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birthdate = 1969
birthplace = England
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = English
period = 2000-present
genre = Chick Lit
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website =Anna Maxted is a bestselling author based in North London, England. Born in 1969, she is married to fellow author and journalist Phil Robinson and has three young children. She writes female contemporary fiction which is viewed to be at the high end of the
chick lit market.Anna Maxted read English Literature atGirton College, Cambridge , before becoming a journalist. She is former Assistant Editor of "Cosmopolitan", and has freelanced for most national newspapers and magazines, including the "The Independent on Sunday ", "The Daily Telegraph ", "The Daily Mirror ", "Sunday Mirror ", "The Times ", "Daily Express ", "FHM ", "Esquire" and "Living Etc ".General
As well as being rich in humour, Anna's novels invariably deal with some of the deeper and more complicated issues facing women, such as grief, abandonment, rejection, motherhood, and sibling rivalry.
Her first novel "Getting Over It", was semi-autobiographical and based very much around her experience of the death of her own father.
Extended bibliography
"Getting Over It", July 2000,
ReganBooks , USA/ Arrow, UK"Running In Heels", Sept 2001, ReganBooks, USA/ Arrow UK
"Behaving Like Adults", August 2003 ReganBooks, USA/ Arrow, UK
"Being Committed", June 2005, ReganBooks, USA/ Arrow UK
"A Tale of Two Sisters", July 2006 Publisher: Dutton, USA/ William Heinemann, UK
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