Louisa Young | |
|---|---|
 Louisa Young in 2018 | |
| Born | London, England |
| Pen name |
|
| Occupation |
|
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1995–present |
| Partner | Michel Faber |
| Children | Isabel Adomakoh Young |
| Parents |
|
| Relatives |
|
| Website | |
| louisayoung | |
Louisa Young is a British novelist,[1] songwriter, short-story writer, biographer and journalist, whose work has appeared in 32 languages. By 2023 she had published seven novels under her own name and five with her daughter, the actor Isabel Adomakoh Young, under the pen name Zizou Corder. Her eleventh novel, Devotion, appeared in June 2016.[2][3][4] She has also written three non-fiction books, The Book of the Heart (Flamingo, 2000), A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott (Macmillan, 1995; Lulu, 2012) and her memoir, You Left Early: A True Story of Love and Alcohol (Borough Press, 2018), an account of her relationship with the composer Robert Lockhart and of his alcoholism. Her most recent novel, Twelve Months and a Day, was published in June 2022 (Borough Press) in the UK, and in the US in January 2023 (Putnam). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- ^ Beckett, Sandra L. (2008). Crossover Fiction: Global and Historical Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415879361.
- ^ Peto, James (2007). The Heart. Other Distribution. p. 244. ISBN 978-0300125108.
- ^ Falconer, Rachel (2008). The Crossover Novel: Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 978-0415978880.
- ^ Perrin, Raymond (2007). Littérature de jeunesse et presse des jeunes au début du XXIe siècle: Esquisse d'un état des lieux, enjeux et perspectives (in French). L'Harmattan. p. 302. ISBN 978-2296040670.