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She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls" school.
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Helen Simpson
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She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. In 1993, she was selected as one of Granta"s top 20 novelists under the age of 40. In 2009, she donated the short story The Tipping Point to Oxfam"s "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of United Kingdom stories written by 38 authors.
Her story was published in the "Air" collection.
She is currently a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story. Many of her stories have been broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, including Café Society and Hurrah for the Hols read by Tamsin Greig and abridged and produced by Amber Barnfather.
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