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Louise Rennison is an English author and comedian. She is the author of the ''Confessions of Georgia Nicolson'' series for teenage girls. This series records the exploits of a teenage girl, Georgia Nicolson, and her best friends, the Ace Gang. Her first and second novels, ''Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging'' and ''It's OK, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers'' were portrayed in a film adaptation called ''Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging''. She has also written a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin, ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey''. She won the Queen of Teen competition in 2008. Her one-woman live show ''Stevie Wonder Felt my Face'' won awards in the 1980s.〔 Her other shows are ''Bob Marley's Gardener Sold My Friend'' and ''Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head''. She has written comedy scripts, and also works for BBC Radio 4. Rennison lives in Brighton.〔(Meet Louise Rennison )〕 She was brought up in Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin.〔 When she was 15, her family moved to Wairakei, New Zealand.〔 She attended Brighton University. Rennison is published by HarperCollins Publishers in the UK. == Biography == Rennison based much of the material in her books on her childhood in Leeds, England, where she lived until her family moved to New Zealand when she was fifteen years old. Many of these experiences come from when she was attending Parklands Girls' High School. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/features/louise-rennison-on-books-snogging-and-the-faultlines-that-face-feminism-1-5848507 )〕 After moving to New Zealand she became pregnant and later gave up her daughter for adoption before returning to the UK. She is still unmarried and currently lives in Brighton. She lived in a small flat in Notting Hill in her twenties doing an assortment of different jobs until she pursued her dream of acting and enrolled in a Performing Arts course in Brighton. There Rennison wrote and performed a one-woman autobiographical show, "Stevie Wonder Felt my Face." She went on to tour performing this show that was well-received with many awards and even later a BBC show. Along with playwriting, she wrote for a London newspaper writing about whatever interested her, such as how pointless it is to date over 35. Because of these articles, Picadilly Press contacted Rennison and asked her if she wanted to write a teenage diary book. They said her writing was "so self-obsessed and so childish" that she would be perfect to write such a book. With ''Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging'' being her first novel, she used actual names of real people from her childhood as she wrote. However, she forgot to change the names before the book was published. Rennison said that she writes not in an attempt to teach, but to make herself laugh. She said, "I wanted Georgia to be a decent person. I wanted her to be someone who is a bit stupid and self-obsessed and difficult and funny and rude, and a bit jealous and all those other things. But I wanted her to have a good heart." Rennison also has said that her books are not just for teenage girls, but have a "potential resonance beyond the young." In particular, Rennison often brings feminist ideals in between the lines of her writing. While studying in Brighton she was a part of an "all-female cabaret group called Women with Beards," a performing group that poked fun at men and why they are responsible "for all the ills of society while the audience, largely female, would all cheer in agreement." Some similar themes carried over into her novel writing. She wanted her books to get girls talking and deciding for themselves what they want to do and who they want to be not letting men decide for them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louise Rennison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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