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Marie Phillips (born 22 April 1976) is a British writer. She is best known for her novel, ''Gods Behaving Badly'', a comic fantasy concerning ancient Greek gods living in modern-day Hampstead, was first published in the United Kingdom in 2007, later becoming a bestseller in Canada. Her second novel, ''The Table of Less Valued Knights'' is a comic take on the world of King Arthur. It was published in the UK in 2014 and nominated for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.〔http://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/2015/baileys-womens-prize-for-fiction-announce-2015-longlist-3〕 She is the daughter of Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers. == Life and career == Phillips was born in London and educated at Bryanston School and Cambridge, where she read social anthropology. After university, she worked as a researcher in television documentaries and current affairs, interrupting this career for a year to complete an MA in visual anthropology at the University of Manchester. In 2003 she quit television completely to pursue a career as a writer. Phillips's first novel, ''The Talentless Miss Pigeon'', was turned down by publishers.〔 She worked in bookshops while writing her second novel, ''Gods Behaving Badly''. On the advice of a representative from Random House, Phillips submitted the second work to Dan Franklin, the publishing director of Jonathan Cape, who purchased the UK and Commonwealth rights. Phillips left bookselling in 2007 to concentrate on writing. She also has a regular personal blog on blogspot.com, which often includes reviews of literature, theatre, and film, as well as current television and radio. She was a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story at Harris Academy Bermondsey 2009–10, and currently at Acland Burghley School in London.〔http://www.firststory.org.uk/2010/04/22/marie-phillips/〕 With Robert Hudson (novelist) she wrote three series of ''Warhorses of Letters'', a BBC Radio 4 comedy about the horses of Napoleon and Wellington starring Stephen Fry, Daniel Rigby and Tamsin Greig.〔http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/njtwp/warhorses-of-letters-warhorses-of-letters〕 The book of the first series was crowd-funded through the Unbound platform and released in 2012.〔http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/warhorses-of-letters〕 Writing with various others under the pseudonym Vanessa Parody, she co-authored the 2013 erotic spoof ''Fifty Shelves of Grey''.〔http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2012-08/07/fifty-shelves-of-grey-books-funniest-sentences〕 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「Marie Phillips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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