The Writers of Wales Database

LEE, CAROL

Carol was born in Carmarthenshire, spending much of her childhood in Africa before beginning a career in journalism on the South Wales Echo in Cardiff. She has been a columnist on the Daily Mail and a contributor to the Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard. A playwright and poet, she has spent many years championing authors’ rights and working with writers’ organisations to help protect artists’ copyright. As a result of writing Crooked Angels (Century, 2001), she trained to be an Alexander Technique Teacher. She writes and teaches in London.

Selected Publications:
The Ostrich Position (Writers and Readers, 1983)
Friday’s Child (Thorsons, 1988)
The Blind Side of Eden (Bloomsbury, 1989)
Talking Tough (Arrow, 1993)
Good Grief (Fourth Estate, 1994)
Crooked Angels (Century, 2001)
To Die For (Century, 2004)
A Child Called Freedom (Century, 2006)