Helen Simpson (author)

Helen Simpson (author)

Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at "Vogue" for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first collection, "Four Bare Legs in a Bed and Other Stories", won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award while her book "Hey Yeah Right Get A Life", a series of interlinked stories, won the Hawthornden Prize.

In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta's top 20 novelists under the age of 40.

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* Bio at Contemporary Writers: [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth90] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/simpson_life.shtml]


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