2016.07.31 作家吉利-库珀

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Kirsty Young’s castaway is the writer Jilly Cooper.

Her long writing career spans newspaper columns for the Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, non-fiction books on class, marriage and animals in war and novels that sell in their millions. Her romances set in the late seventies - including 'Bella', 'Harriett', 'Imogen' and 'Prudence' – were followed by 'Riders' in 1985, the first of her Rutshire Chronicles. Set mainly in the Cotswolds, they are racy and raunchy page-turners exposing the scandalous – and often hilarious - goings on among the British upper classes.

Born in 1937 in Essex, she was brought up in Yorkshire and enjoyed a happy childhood surrounded by dogs and ponies. At boarding school she earned the nickname, ‘the unholy terror’ and having failed to get into Oxford and being sacked from a number of jobs for her inability to type, she turned to journalism before publishing her first book, 'How to Stay Married' in 1969.

She married Leo Cooper in 1961 and, unable to have children of their own, the couple adopted Felix and Emily in the late 1960s. The couple were married for 52 years before his death in 2013.




作家吉利-库珀

她漫长的写作生涯涵盖了《星期日泰晤士报》和《星期日邮报》的报纸专栏，关于阶级、婚姻和战争中的动物的非虚构书籍，以及销量达数百万的小说。她以七十年代末为背景的浪漫小说--包括《贝拉》、《哈里特》、《伊莫金》和《普鲁登丝》--随后在1985年出版了《骑士》，这是她的《鲁特郡编年史》的第一部。这些作品主要以科茨沃尔德地区为背景，是揭露英国上层社会的丑闻--而且往往是搞笑的--的翻页小说。

她于1937年出生于埃塞克斯，在约克郡长大，享受着被狗和小马包围的快乐童年。在寄宿学校，她赢得了一个绰号："邪恶的恐怖"，由于没能进入牛津大学，并因不会打字而被解雇，在1969年出版她的第一本书《如何保持婚姻》之前，她转向了新闻业。

她于1961年与利奥-库珀结婚，由于无法拥有自己的孩子，这对夫妇在60年代末收养了菲利克斯和艾米丽。在他于2013年去世之前，这对夫妇的婚姻长达52年。