Eleanor Updale

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name = Eleanor Updale


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Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is the author of the Montmorency Series. She has written four novels and some short stories, and has won several awards for her writing.

Biography

Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in South London. She studied history at St. Anne's College, Oxford, England before becoming a producer of television and radio current affairs programs for the BBC. She studied at the new Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and was awarded a Ph.D in 2007. She is also a trustee of the charity Listening Books. Updale lives in England; "Montmorency" was her first book.

She is married to broadcaster James Naughtie.

External links

* [http://www.eleanorupdale.com/ Author's website]
* [http://www.tellingtrails.co.uk/pages/individuals/updalepage.html Biography at tellingtrails.co.uk]

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