Occupation Writer Name Eleanor Updale Nationality British Role Fiction writer | Period 2003–present | |
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Genre Historical, mystery, suspense fiction; children's fiction Nominations Nestle Smarties Book Prize Books Montncy, Johnny Swanson, Montncy On The Rocks, Montncy and the assassins, Montncy’s Revenge | ||
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Eleanor Updale (born 1953) is an English fiction writer, best known for the Victorian-era London thriller Montmorency (2003) and its sequels, the Montmorency series.
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Biography
Eleanor Updale was born in 1953 and grew up in Camberwell in South London. She studied history at St Anne's College, Oxford, England, before becoming a producer of television and radio current affairs programmes for the BBC. She studied at the new Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary College, University of London, and was awarded a PhD in History in 2007. She is also a trustee of the charity Listening Books. Montmorency was her first book, published by Scholastic Corporation in 2003, and quickly followed by three sequels.
Updale is married to broadcaster James Naughtie. She has three children.