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Jilly Cooper (February 21, 1937)
Feb. 21st, 2010 10:29 am
Jilly Cooper, OBE (born February 21, 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles. Jilly Cooper was born in Hornchurch, Essex, England, to Brigadier W.B. Sallitt, OBE, and Mary Elaine Whincup. She grew up in Ilkley and Surrey, and was educated at the Moorfield School in Ilkley and the Godolphin School in Salisbury.
After unsuccessfully trying to start a career in the British national press, Cooper became a junior reporter for The Middlesex Independent, based in Brentford. She worked for the paper from 1957 to 1959. Subsequently, she worked as an account executive, copywriter, publisher's reader and even a receptionist.
Her break came with a chance meeting at a dinner party. The editor of The Sunday Times Magazine was impressed by the honest and frank way that she talked about her life as a young wife and housewife, and asked her to write a feature about her experiences. This led to a column in which Cooper wrote about marriage, sex and housework with an openness that was uncommon for the time. That column ran from 1969 to 1982, when she moved to The Mail on Sunday, where she worked for another five years.
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First Book - How to Stay Married (1969)
Last Book - Wicked! (2006)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilly_Cooper
Jilly Cooper, OBE (born February 21, 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles. 
If not for the writing style, with that snapped dialogue where characters give you enough words to understand what they are saying but no more, I would have wondered of who was the book I was reading… not for sure by Sean Michael, where was the sex? When someone criticizes a book by Sean Michael, I always hear the same thing: it’s only a continuous sex scene, there is no story, no dialogue. 
If not for the writing style, with that snapped dialogue where characters give you enough words to understand what they are saying but no more, I would have wondered of who was the book I was reading… not for sure by Sean Michael, where was the sex? When someone criticizes a book by Sean Michael, I always hear the same thing: it’s only a continuous sex scene, there is no story, no dialogue. 
Directors: Glenn Ficarra 
Directors: Glenn Ficarra 
