Joanna Trollope
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Trollope in 2011
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| Born | Joanna Trollope 9 December 1943 Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England |
| Pen name | Caroline Harvey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | 1978–present |
| Spouse | 1. David Roger William Potter (1966–1983), 2. Ian Curteis (1985–2001) |
| Children | 2 and 2 stepsons |
| Relatives | Anthony Trollope |
| Website | |
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Joanna Trollope OBE (/ˈtrɒləp/; born 9 December 1943) is a British writer. She also wrote under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding's Daughter won in 1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings.
Trollope is of the same family as the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope although not a direct descendant, and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope:
"Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference... I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception".
On 14 May 1966, Trollope married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise, and, in 1983, they divorced. In 1985, she remarried to the television dramatist Ian Curteis, and became the stepmother of two stepsons; they divorced in 2001. Today, she is a grandmother and lives on her own in London.
Trollope was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980.
In 2008, she wrote a letter in support of J. K. Rowling's copyright infringement case in America.
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