11 Facts About Louise Rennison

Louise Rennison was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls.

Louise Rennison was brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house in Seacroft with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin.

Louise Rennison attended Parklands High School, an all-girls school, from the age of 11, which she later credited with inspiring her as a comedic writer.

On returning to the UK, Louise Rennison lived in a small flat in Notting Hill doing an assortment of jobs until she decided to pursue her dream of acting and enrolled in a Performing Arts course at the University of Brighton.

Louise Rennison began to write for Woman's Hour on Radio Four, for comedians, and for a London newspaper.

Louise Rennison said that she wrote not in an attempt to teach, but to make herself laugh.

Louise Rennison wanted her books to get girls talking and deciding for themselves what they wanted to do and who they wanted to be, rather than letting men decide for them.

Louise Rennison wrote a number of sequels to Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, and in 2010 began a second series based on Georgia's cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.

Louise Rennison's death was announced on 29 February 2016 by her publisher HarperCollins.

Louise Rennison was rewarded with the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2010 for the first book in The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey series, Withering Tights.

Louise Rennison sought out 14-year-old girls to talk with them about what they would want to read and wrote that.