Isabel Wolff
British novelist
Isabel Wolff is an English novelist in the Chick lit genre. Aside from being a novelist, Wolff has worked as a radio producer and reporter for the BBC World Service.
Early and personal life
Wolff was born in Warwickshire, England. She graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English. She currently lives in Islington, London and has a home on the Roseland Peninsula.
Work
Wolff's first novel The Trials of Tiffany Trott came about in 1997 when The Daily Telegraph asked her to write a comic column. Trott's persona is a British working-girl. HarperCollins commissioned Wolff to turn the column into a book.
Her 2009 book A Vintage Affair was an Amazon.co.uk 'Best of the Year' title that year. The same book was also on the short list for the 2011 American Library Association's The Reading List for Women Fiction.
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