Sue Townsend, who got her start as a writer for the theater, penned a series of fictional diaries of a self-obsessed teenager that critics deemed one of the literary phenomena of the 1980s. A runaway ...
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In the realm of publishing, novelist Sue Townsend dominated England in the 1980s. Creator of Adrian Mole, a character described by Spectator reviewer Claudia FitzHerbert in 1992 as "a twerpish teenage...
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