Rae Earl

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English author of several books and radio presenter. Earl obtained a degree from Hull University and won the University's Philip Larkin literary prize in 1994. She then worked as a copywriter in local radio before moving into radio presenting. Earl lives in Hobart, Australia and is married to Kevin Johnson and has a son called Harry. She is the author of the 2007 book My Fat Mad Teenage Diary, a collection of the diaries she wrote as a teenager in the late 1980s, and the follow-up book, My Madder Fatter Diary, Vol.2 (2014). The television show My Mad Fat Diary on E4 is based on her books. The first series began airing in January 2013, with a second series shown in 2014. A third and final series was shown in 2015. In 2013, Rae Earl's first fiction book, OMG! Is This Actually My Life? Hattie Moore's Unbelievable Year! was published. The book is a fictional diary of a teenage girl who lives in Derby. The second book in the Hattie Moore series, OMG! I'm in Love with a Geek! was published in 2014. Link to Wikipedia biography