Occupation Novelist Name Anna Maxted Nationality English Role Author | Period 2000-present Genre Chick lit | |
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Books Getting over it, Running in heels, Behaving like adults, How to Seduce Your Dre, Over 100 Truly Astonishi | ||
Education Girton College, Cambridge | ||
Anna Maxted is an author based in North London, England. Born in 1969, she is married to fellow author and journalist Philip Robinson and they have three young sons. She writes female contemporary fiction which is viewed to be at the high end of the chick lit market.
Anna Maxted read English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, before becoming a journalist. She is former Assistant Editor of Cosmopolitan, and has freelanced for most national newspapers and magazines, including The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Times, Daily Express, FHM, Esquire and Living Etc.
Her first novel Getting Over It, was semi-autobiographical and based very much around her experience of the death of her own father.