- Kathy Lette
Kathy Lette (born
11 November 1958 ) is anAustralia nauthor who has written a number of bestselling books.Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor (with friend
Gabrielle Carey ) of "Puberty Blues ", a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls attempting to improve their social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers. The book was made into a successful movie in 1981.As an adult, Lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with "Girls' Night Out" in 1988 and has since written several more successful novels and plays, including "Foetal Attraction", "Mad Cows" in 1996 (which was made into a film starring
Joanna Lumley andAnna Friel ) and "Dead Sexy".Despite her stereotyping of English people as condescending and unfriendly, [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010130/ai_n9662387 Media: Poms: don't you just hate them?] "
The Independent " Jan 30, 2001 ] and her perceived dislike ofmen , [ [http://blogs.news.com.au/jackmarxlive/index.php/news/comments/lette/P60/ Kathy Lette: shut the @#$% up!]news.com.au Jack Marx Live Blog June 16, 2008] , Lette lives inLondon and is married to a fellow Australianexpatriate , the "silk", television host and authorGeoffrey Robertson QC, whom she first met when appearing on his "Hypotheticals" panel debate show. They have two children, Julius and Georgina. She was earlier married toKim Williams . nowChief Executive Officer ofFoxtel , while he was CEO of theAustralian Film Commission .In 2007, Lette joined "Sunrise" as a London correspondent a part of the Global Notebook; she kept this position until mid 2007.
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* [http://www.kathylette.com Kathy Lette's personal website]
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DATE OF BIRTH=11 November 1958
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