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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).

Chrissie Glazebrook
Born	(1945-03-19)19 March 1945[1][2]
Died	7 December 2007(2007-12-07) (aged 62)[1][2] Scarborough, England[1][2]
Occupation	Arts administrator, writer, secretary, journalist, broadcaster[1][2]
Nationality	British
Notable awards	The Waterstones Prize for Prose[3] 1998 Time to Write Award[4] 2002
Website
Shuffling Off

Early life and marriage

Glazebrook was adopted at 8 weeks by Mary and Ernest Wright and brought up in the Black Country.[1][2][5] She was educated at Cannock Grammar School and then did a secretarial course.[2] She married in the late 1960s and moved to Scarborough.[1][2][5] She was divorced a few years later.[1][2][5]

Career

Before her writing career, Glazebrook had a number of jobs, including in a zoo and managing a vegetarian restaurant.[2][3] She also worked at the Stephen Joseph Theatre.[6]

From 1982 to 1990 she worked as a freelance writer and broadcaster.[2] She wrote for Jackie (magazine).[1][2][5] She produced Flavour of the Month, a cookery programme, for Tyne Tees Television, and also worked as a television presenter for Tyne Tees.[1][2][5]

In 1991 Glazebrook became an Arts Administrator at Northern Arts.[1][2] She was one of the founders of ProudWORDS, a gay and lesbian literature festival.[1][2][5]

In 1998 Glazebrook completed an MA in creative writing at Northumbria University.[1][5][7]

Her first novel, The Madolescents, was published in 2001.[1][2][5] Ray French said of the teenage narrator that "Rowena's cynical, fragile, vulgar voice is a delight".[8]

Glazebrook was part of a network of Northern writers, particularly women, including Julia Darling.[1][2][5]

Illness and death

Glazebrook had depression.[1][2][5]

In 2006 she was diagnosed with liver and bowel cancer.[1][2][5] She died the following year in Scarborough, supported by her family.[1][2][5]

Selected works

Glazebrook's publications include:[9]

• 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

External links

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

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