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Chrissie Glazebrook, adopted as Christine Ann Wright (19 March 1945 – 7 December 2007) was a British writer, known for her novel The Madolescents (2001).

Early life and marriage

Glazebrook was adopted at 8 weeks by Mary and Ernest Wright and brought up in the Black Country. She was educated at Cannock Grammar School and then did a secretarial course. She married in the late 1960s and moved to Scarborough. She was divorced a few years later.

Career

Before her writing career, Glazebrook had a number of jobs, including in a zoo and managing a vegetarian restaurant. She also worked at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. From 1982 to 1990 she worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster. She wrote for the magazine Jackie. She produced Flavour of the Month, a cookery programme, for Tyne Tees Television, and also worked as a television presenter for Tyne Tees.

In 1991 Glazebrook became an Arts Administrator at Northern Arts. She was one of the founders of ProudWORDS, a gay and lesbian literature festival. In 1998 Glazebrook completed an MA in creative writing at Northumbria University.

Her first novel, The Madolescents, was published in 2001. Ray French said of the teenage narrator that "Rowena's cynical, fragile, vulgar voice is a delight".

Glazebrook was part of a network of Northern writers, particularly women, including Julia Darling.

Illness and death

Glazebrook had depression.

In 2006 she was diagnosed with liver and bowel cancer. She died the following year in Scarborough, supported by her family.

Selected works

Glazebrook's publications include:

• The Pocket Guide to Men (1986)
• "The Full Monty", in Biting Back : new fiction from the North, (ed) Kitty Fitzgerald (IRON, 2001)
• The Madolescents (Heinemann/Arrow, 2002)
• Blue Spark Sisters (Heinemann/Arrow, 2003)

References

1. ^ O'Brien, Sean (11 December 2007). "Chrissie Glazebrook". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
2. ^ Fitzgerald, Kitty (14 December 2007). "Chrissie Glazebrook: Writer with a slapstick, acid wit". Independent. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
3. ^ Joe Keenan (2002). Blue Heaven. Arrow. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-09-943504-4.
4. Susan Leckey (22 December 2015). The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes. Routledge. pp. 310–. ISBN 978-1-135-35631-6.
5. ^ "Chrissie Glazebrook". Family Announcements. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
6. "Administration". Scarborough In The Round. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
7. "Creative Writing Student Successes". Northumbria University. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
8. French, Ray (13 November 2007). "Ray French's top 10 black comedies". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
9. "Chrissie Glazebrook". Northern Writers' Awards. Retrieved 17 August 2018.

External links

• Shuffling Off – author's blog
• The Madolescents discussed on Radio 4's Open Book

• 1945 births
• 2007 deaths
• English adoptees
• Deaths from liver cancer in England
• Deaths from colorectal cancer in England
• British women short story writers
• English women novelists
• 20th-century English novelists
• 20th-century English women writers
• 20th-century British short story writers
• People with mood disorders
• People from Newcastle upon Tyne (district)
• People from the Black Country
• Alumni of Northumbria University
• People educated at Cannock Chase High School
• Writers from Scarborough, North Yorkshire
• British writers with disabilities