Kathy Lette
| Kathy Lette | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 November 1958 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Residence | Camden, London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Citizenship |
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| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 1979-present |
| Spouse(s) |
Kim Williams Geoffrey Robertson |
| Children | Julius Robertson Georgina Robertson |
| Website | Management |
Kathryn Marie Lette (born 11 November 1958), better known as Kathy Lette, is an Australian-British author who has written a number of bestselling books. She resides in the London Borough of Camden.
Born in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the co-author (with friend Gabrielle Carey) of Puberty Blues, a strongly autobiographical, proto-feminist teen novel about two 13-year-old southern suburbs girls attempting to improve their social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers. The book was made into a film in 1981 and a TV series in 2012.
Lette appeared in the The Sydney Morning Herald of 20 August 1978 pictured in Martin Place with her friend Gabrielle Carey in an article titled "Buskers Lose Freak Tag". A young Lette stood up for buskers' rights not to be moved on as Sydney City Council enforced a 1919 Act of Parliament in New South Wales.
As an adult, Lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with Girls' Night Out in 1988 and has since written several more novels and plays, including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows in 1996 (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel) and Dead Sexy.
Despite her comments about English people being condescending and unfriendly, Lette lives in London and is married to a fellow Australian expatriate, Geoffrey Robertson, whom she first met while still married to Kim Williams, when appearing on Robertson's TV panel debate show Hypotheticals. They have two children, Julius and Georgina. Julius has Asperger syndrome.
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