Elizabeth Buchan

March 21, 1948 (age 48)

Guildford, United Kingdom

Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001), has been made into a television film for Columbia Broadcasting System. In the 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She started working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books (1974–1989), and later, since 1989 as Fiction Editor at Random House. After the publication of her third novel, she become a full-time writer She lives in London. Her short stories have been broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has been a judge for Whitbread (now Costa) Awards, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot Awards and reviews for the Sunday Times. She is also a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and the National Academy of Writing.

Elizabeth Buchan

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Background

Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker was born on 21 May 1948 in Guildford, Surrey, England, the daughter of Major Peter Oakleigh-Walker and Eleanor Mary Peters.

Education

University of Kent.

Career

Her novel, Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman (2001), has been made into a television film for Columbia Broadcasting System. In the 1970s, she obtained a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She started working as a blurb writer for Penguin Books (1974–1989), and later, since 1989 as Fiction Editor at Random House. After the publication of her third novel, she become a full-time writer

She lives in London.

Her short stories have been broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and published in magazines. She has been a judge for Whitbread (now Costa) Awards, and has chaired the Betty Trask and Desmond Elliot Awards and reviews for the Sunday Times. She is also a patron of the Guildford Book Festival and the National Academy of Writing.

Achievements

In 1994, her novel Consider the Lily won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists" Association, and she was elected its eighteenth Chairman (1995–1997).

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