Wendy Holden

Wendy Holden was a respected journalist and war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, covering news stories around the world. She is also the author of more than thirty-five non-fiction titles featuring inspirational men and women, many of which are international bestsellers. She has sold over two million books.

With a writing career spanning forty years, Wendy Holden has written books on everything from the Holocaust to celebrity memoirs. Ten of her titles have become international bestsellers. She has worked with survivors of war, those who have suffered injustice or shown great courage, and with famous clients including Captain Sir Tom Moore, Goldie Hawn, Barbara Sinatra, and Patricia Gucci.

She has also written about the controversial Irish abortion case, a musical prodigy who survived three concentration camps, and an indefatigable octogenarian nurse known as ‘the Mother Teresa of Africa.’ She penned the memoir of the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, and as the author of Born Survivors, the true story of three young mothers who hid their pregnancies from the Nazis and gave birth in the camps, she has become an international public speaker, addressing everyone from schoolchildren worldwide to members of the US Senate and the House of Lords.

As an antidote to some of her more serious books, Wendy wrote the book of the film The Full Monty and worked alongside Uggie the Oscar-winning Jack Russell from the movie The Artist, and Haatchi & Little B, that adorable disabled dog and boy whose story became a Number One bestseller. One of her talks, Around the World in 30 Books, gives a remarkable insight into the life and work of one of our most prolific and sought-after writers.