Sophie Kinsella Biography and latest books by Sophie Kinsella

Sophie Kinsella is a pseudonym that Madeleine Wickham started using while publishing Confessions of a Shopaholic. Although Wickham had previously published seven other books under her real name, her Kinsella books gained more popularity, so she decided to stick with the pseudonym. Her books belong to the genre -- chick lit. Her works are light, humorous books about modern women and their misadventures in love and life in general.

Born:
Sophie Kinsella was born as Madeleine Townley in London on December 12, 1969.

Family:
Madeleine Townley married Henry Wickham in 1992. Wickham is currently the headmaster of a boys\' school in Hertfordshire, England, where the two reside with their four sons, Freddy (14), Hugo (12), Oscar (5) and Rex (10 months).

Education & Early Career:
After graduating from Putney High School and earning a degree in PPE from New College, Oxford in 1990, Wickham worked as a financial journalist before writing fiction. While working as a financial journalist, at the age of 24, she wrote her first novel, The Tennis Party that was immediately hailed as a success by critics and the public alike and became a top ten bestseller. She went on to publish six more novels as Madeleine Wickham: A Desirable Residence, Swimming Pool Sunday, The Gatecrasher, The Wedding Girl, Cocktails for Three and Sleeping Arrangements.

Her first novel as Sophie Kinsella was submitted to her existing publishers anonymously and her editors jumped at it not knowing who it was really from. Sophie revealed her real identity for the first time when Can You Keep a Secret? was published in December 2005. Sophie Kinsella is best known for writing The Shopaholic novels series of chick lit novels, which focus on the misadventures of Becky Bloomwood, a financial journalist who cannot manage her own finances. The series focuses on her obsession with shopping and its resulting complications. The first two Shopaholic books were adapted into a film and released in February 2009, with Isla Fisher playing Becky and Hugh Dancy as Luke Brandon.

Her latest novel under the name Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl, was released in the UK in July 2009. She also has another addition to the Shopaholic series, Mini Shopaholic, which is out September 2010.
 

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