Shirley Conran
Autor(a) de Lace
About the Author
Image credit: Shirley Conran Photo by David Cairns
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Conran, Shirley
- Nome de batismo
- Conran, Shirley
- Outros nomes
- Conran, Lady Shirley
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-09-21
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Hendon, Londen, UK
- Locais de residência
- Londen, UK
Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Frankrijk - Educação
- St. Paul’s Girls School, London
La Chatelaine, Switzerland
Portsmouth Art College (now part of Southampton University) – specialising in sculpture
Chelsea Polytechnic, (now part of the Arts London University) specialising in painting - Ocupação
- Schrijfster
Journaliste - Relacionamentos
- Conran, Sebastian (Zoon)
Conran, Jasper (Zoon)
Conran, Terence (ex-man) - Organizações
- Vanity Fair
Daily Mail
The Observer - Pequena biografia
- Shirley Conran is the ex-wife of British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer Sir Terence Conran. She is the mother of designers Sebastian Conran and Jasper Conran. A bestselling author in her own right whose most memorable books include Lace and Superwoman.
She was educated at the University of Portsmouth. In addition to novel writing, she wrote regularly for The Observer newspaper's women's page and was the first women's editor of The Observer Colour Magazine and women's editor of The Daily Mail newspaper where she launched the weekly women's magazine 'Femail'. She also has great experience as a designer in textiles and as a colour consultant - she had her own paint range. She handled the publicity for the Women in Media Campaign devoted to sex discrimination legislation. She was on the selection committee of the Council of Industrial Design for eight years. She also has been a columnist for Vanity Fair (magazine).
Shirley Conran is well known for having said: "First things first, second things never".
She was successfully treated for skin cancer several years ago.
She has homes in France and London.
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- Obras
- 23
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 1,462
- Popularidade
- #17,576
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 25
- ISBNs
- 159
- Idiomas
- 11