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CONRAN, Shirley was born on September 21, 1932. Daughter of Ida and W. Thirlbey Pearce.
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CONRAN, Shirley was born on September 21, 1932. Daughter of Ida and W. Thirlbey Pearce.
Saint Paul"s Girls’ School and Portsmouth Art College.
Conran is a best-selling author, whose books include Lace and Superwoman. She has been a columnist for Vanity Fair, women"s editor of The Daily Mail and a feature writer for The Observer. Lace spent 13 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, reaching as high as Number.
6, and was adapted into a 1980s United States miniseries.
Her two later husbands included Kevin O"Sullivan, now the husband of Victoria Glendinning. Conran has homes in France and London, and lived in Monaco for several years.
She is known for coining the phrases "Life is too short to stuff a mushroom" and "First things first, second things never".
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Married 1st Sir Terence Conran (divorced in 1962).