Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae

Giles Andreae (DOB: 16th March 1966) is Britain's best-selling contemporary poet, through his personas "Purple Ronnie" and "Edward Monkton".

A graduate of Oxford University, Andreae completed his degree under difficult circumstances as he developed Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands, and began an intensive course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy the day before his final exams began. He managed to sit some of his papers, and was awarded an upper second class degree.

Giles lives with his wife Victoria, a children’s clothes designer, in Notting Hill, where he shares an office with writer Richard Curtis and radio and TV presenter Mariella Frostrup.

He also has a seaside retreat in Dorset. Giles and Victoria have three children: Flinn, and twins, Frea, Nat and Jakson who were born at the end of the last millennium.

External links

* [http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/Authors/microsite.asp?id=532&cf=1 Giles Andreae Biography] at Bloomsbury Children's
* [http://www.puffin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000062330,00.html Giles Andreae at Puffin Books]


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