Frances Lynn is an English

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and

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Biography

Lynn was born in St. Mary's Hospital,

Paddington Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed b ...

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, and was educated at

Malvern Girls' College Malvern St James School is an independent school in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England. Founded in 1893 as Malvern Girls' College, it was renamed Malvern St James following a merger in 2006 with St James's School in West Malvern. It continue ...

. In 1977, Lynn started her journalistic career when she became the film editor and

gossip columnist A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are written in a light, informal style, and relate opinions about the personal lives or conduct of celebrities fr ...

for the now defunct ''

Ritz Newspaper ''Ritz Newspaper'', colloquially ''Ritz Magazine'', sometimes simply ''Ritz'', was a British magazine focusing on gossip, celebrity and fashion.Puttin' on the Ritz again, Andrew Lycett, Media & Marketing, ''The Times'', London, 31 May 1989 It was ...

'', published by

David Bailey David Royston Bailey (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Bailey has also directed several televisio ...

. Interview subjects included

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American guitarist, composer, and bandleader. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestra ...

. She also wrote the initial treatment, entitled ''Frantic: A Story About a Gossip Columnist'', whose characters included a certain Romo Dolonski, a Polish film director out on bail for abducting a 12-year-old girl, for

Don Boyd Donald William Robertson Boyd (born 11 August 1948) is a Scottish film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was a Governor of the London Film School until 2016 and in 2017 was made an Honorary Professor in the College of Humaniti ...

's abortive 1982 film ''

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''. During the 1990s Lynn contributed stories (seven ''

Future Shocks ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' is a long-running series of short strips appearing in the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD'' since 1977. The name originates from the fictional editor of 2000 AD and the book titled ''Future Shock'', written by Alvin T ...

'' and one ''Dragon Tales'') to '' 2000 AD''. In 2006, her two novels, ''Crushed'' and ''Frantic'', were both published by Eiworth Publishing. In 2010 ''Willing To Die For It'', her biography of Dr Sammy Lee, was published by Murray Print.

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External links

A Readerviews book review of ''Crushed''
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