Deborah Moggach is a British writer, born Deborah Hough on 28 June 1948. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride & Prejudice. She has also written two collections of short stories and a stage play. In February 2005, Moggach was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by her Alma Mater, the University of Bristol . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Chair of the Society of Authors, and is on the executive committee of PEN.[1]
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Biography
The daughter of two writers, Charlotte and the late Richard, Deborah was one of four children -- all girls -- and has two adult children herself, Tom, 30, a teacher, and Lottie, 28, a journalist. Moggach was brought up in Hertfordshire and London. She has lived in Pakistan and the United States. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1971 with a degree in English and trained as a teacher before going to work at Oxford University Press (OUP), where she met her (now ex-)husband Tony. For ten years, her boyfriend was the cartoonist Mel Calman.[2] After his death in 1994, she lived for seven years with a Hungarian painter, Czaba Pasztor. She currently lives in a house overlooking Hampstead Heath in North London.
Works
Novels
- These Foolish Things (2004)
- Final Demand (2001)
- Tulip Fever (1999)
- Close Relations (1997)
- Seesaw (1996)
- The Ex-Wives (1993)
- The Stand-In (1991)
- Stolen (1990)
- Driving in the Dark (1988)
- To Have and to Hold (1986)
- Porky (1983)
- Hot Water Man (1982)
- A Quiet Drink (1980)
- Close To Home (1979)
- You Must Be Sisters (1978)
- In the Dark (2007)
Short story collections
- Changing Babies and Other Stories (1995)
- Smile and Other Stories (1987)
(All dates refer to the first known publication of any edition of the book n the United Kingdom.
Screenplays
- Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Teleplays
- Anne Frank (2008)
- Final Demand (adaptation of her own novel) (2003)
- Love in a Cold Climate (adaptation of a Nancy Mitford novel) (2001)
- Close Relations (adaptation of her own novel) (1999)
- Seesaw (adaptation of her own novel) (1998)
- Goggle Eyes (children's series) (adaptation of an Anne Fine novel) (1993) (Won a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial)
- To Have and to Hold (mini-series) (1986)
Stage Play
- Double-Take
