How to be Famous: The laugh-out-loud Richard & Judy Book Club bestseller to read this summer

About Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton believing that if she were very good and worked very hard she might one day evolve into Bill Murray.She published a childrens novel The Chronicles of Narmo at the age of 16 and became a columnist at The Times at 18. She has gone on to be named Columnist of the Year six times. At one point she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year - which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes the as hte. Her multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman has been published in 28 countries and won the British Book Awards Book of the Year 2011. Her two volumes of collected journalism Moranthology and Moranifesto were Sunday Times bestsellers and her novel How to Build a Girl debuted at Number One and is currently being adapted as a movie. She co-wrote two series of the Rose dOr-winning Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves with her sister Caroline.Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children where she spends her time tweeting either about civil rights issues or that picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 23 and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as a very sexual humanitarian.