Nicola Morgan

Nicola Morgan
Born	11 November 1961 (1961-11-11) (age 50) Scotland, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author, Teacher
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Nicola Morgan (born 1961) is a Scottish author, best known for her novel, Mondays Are Red.

Biography

Nicola Morgan was born in a school in 1961, where her parents worked. They kept moving from school to school. Morgan's father taught English and French and her mother taught mathematics and science. Her parents taught at boys' schools and when she was eleven, Nicola was sent to boarding school. She later went to Cambridge University where she read Classics and Philosophy. Nicola Morgan wanted to become a writer after leaving university, but also took up a post as a teacher in a small school and taught English. Morgan also took a diploma in teaching people with reading and writing problems. Nicola also set up a website, The Child Literacy Centre, to help parents help their children with all aspects of reading. She ran this single-handedly until closing the service in 2009. In 2009 she started "Help! I Need a Publisher!", a blog for writers. Morgan lives in Edinburgh with her two daughters and dog.

Writing

By 1999, Nicola Morgan had published dozens of best-selling home-learning books, while still working towards publication as a novelist. By 2010, she had published nine novels, all but one for teenagers, and five non-fiction books, including the internationally acclaimed Blame My Brain.^[1]

Bibliography

Fiction

• Mondays are Red (2002)
• Fleshmarket (2003)
• Sleepwalking (2004)
• The Passionflower Massacre (2005)
• Chicken Friend (2006)
• The Highwayman's Footsteps (2006)
• The Highwayman's Curse (2007)
• Deathwatch (2009)
• Wasted (2010)

Non-fiction

• Ancient Greece (2000)
• Blame My Brain (2005)
• The Leaving Home Survival Guide (2005)
• Know Your Brain (2007)
• Reality Check: Curses (2008)
• Write To Be Published (2011)
• Tweet Right - The Sensible Person's Guide To Twitter (2011)

References

1. ^ "Nicola Morgan's highwayman tales really do stand and deliver". The Times. 14 December 2007. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article3051277.ece. Retrieved 2 October 2010. 

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Name	Morgan, Nicola
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Date of birth	11 November 1961
Place of birth	Scotland, United Kingdom
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