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Profile of Kathy Lette
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11th November 1958 |
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Kathy Lette is an Australian author who has written a number of bestselling books.
Born in the late 1950's in Sydney's southern suburbs, she first attracted attention in 1979 as the coauthor (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 successful movie in 1981.
As an adult, Lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with Girl's Night Out in 1988 and has since written several more successful novels and plays, including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows (which was made into a film starring Joanna Lumley and Anna Friel) and Dead Sexy.
Despite her stereotyping of English people as condescending and unfriendly and perceived dislike of men, Lette lives in London, and is married to fellow Australian expatriate "silk", television host and author Geoffrey Robertson. They have two children, Julius and Georgina.
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