Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. Read full biography of Louise Brown →
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.
Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.
When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess... →
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the... →
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have... →
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but... →
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.