Frances Lynn is an English

journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and

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Biography

Lynn was born in St. Mary's Hospital,

Paddington Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Padd ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, and was educated at

Malvern Girls' College Malvern St James is an independent school for girls 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 conti ...

. 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 a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are material written in a light, informal style, which relates the gossip columnist's opinions about the personal li ...

for the now defunct '' Ritz Newspaper'', 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. Early life David Bailey was born at Wh ...

. Interview subjects included

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of A ...

. 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'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 in the British weekly comic '' 2000 AD'' in 1977. The name originates from the fictional editor of 2000 AD and the book titled '' Future Shock'', written by Alvin Toffler, pub ...

'' 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.

References

External links

A Readerviews book review of ''Crushed''
English writers British writers of young adult literature British journalists British women journalists Writers from Paddington Living people Year of birth missing (living people) English comics writers Gossip columnists People educated at Malvern St James English women writers British women columnists British women biographers Women writers of young adult literature British female comics artists Female comics writers {{UK-writer-stub