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Diana Raymond (1916-2009) wrote 24 novels, as well as theatre criticism and poetry.
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John Finch was born in Liverpool in the years of the depression. He was brought up in Yorkshire when his father disappeared and his mother returned to live with her father, a retired Yorkshire miner. By the time he left school at the age of fourteen he had been to twelve schools, including an orphanage.
Lucilla Andrews wrote 33 novels, an autobiography, and many short stories. Her books were published in 11 languages and sold almost 3 million copies during her lifetime. The Nursing Times said that Lucilla was "arguably the best of all writers of hospital fiction", and The Guardian called her the "brand leader in hospital fiction".
Lucilla was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the RNA shortly before her death.
Lucy Walker was a pen name of the bestselling author Dorothy Lucy Sanders. As Lucy Walker she wrote over 30 romance novels set in the Australian outback which were enormously successful, selling more than 12 million copies.
Mary Rensten is a former teacher. She was a prolific freelance magazine journalist in the 1980s and 90s, specialising in interviews with world-renowned writers, artists, actors and musicians. She is particularly thrilled to have interviewed Maya Angelou, Thomas Keneally and Cleo Laine.
Chair of the SWWJ during its Centenary year 1994, Mary is still active on the Council. Her feature on the Eden Project, A Vision of Eden, won her the SWWJ's coveted Violet Astor Rose bowl in 2002.
As a dramatist, her work has been seen at the Edinburgh Festival and on the London Fringe. She has written radio plays and scripts for television, and plays, all of them published, for schools. Her first novel, published in 1990, was reissued by Wyndham Books in 2013 as Letters from Malta, became an international bestseller.