Wendy Holden (also known as Taylor Holden) is a novelist, non-fiction author, biographer, and ghostwriter, as well as a former journalist for the London Daily Telegraph.
Since leaving newspapers in 1996, she has written more than twenty-five books, including numerous international bestsellers and the acclaimed novel The Sense of Paper, published by Random House, New York. A reporter for eighteen years, she covered news events at home and abroad, including the Gulf War, the Iran/Iraq War, conflicts in the Middle East, Communist Europe and Northern Ireland.
Her non-fiction titles have chiefly been ghosted autobiographies of remarkable women, many with wartime experiences, such as the only woman in the French Foreign Legion during World War II; a young Jewish woman who repeatedly crossed German lines as a spy; and a British mother whose daughter was killed in the war in the Sudan. She has also written A Lotus Grows in the Mud, the best-selling autobiography of Hollywood actress Goldie Hawn, and Memories Are Made of This, a biography of Dean Martin as seen through the eyes of his daughter Deana. Movie rights have been successfully sold for several of her books.
She has three more titles being published in 2011 - Lady Blue Eyes, her ghosted autobiography of Frank Sinatra's widow Barbara; Ten Mindful Minutes, a mindfulness book for parents by Goldie Hawn; and Kill Switch, which tells the remarkable story of Major Bill Shaw, MBE, who was wrongly imprisoned in Afghanistan.
Other works have included the bestselling novelisations of the films The Full Monty and Waking Ned, as well as a travel book with Billy Connolly. She wrote Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking by Pauline Prescott, and Heaven and Hell with Don Felder (of The Eagles). Her book Shell Shock, a searing investigation into the trauma of conflict from the World War One to the Gulf War was published in conjunction with a four-part television documentary.
Her various works have been serialised in national newspapers and magazines around the globe, selected for audio extracts on BBC Radio, used in schools and colleges as educational tools, and transferred to both commercial television and radio drama. She is currently writing her third screenplay.
Wendy lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband, sixteen hens and two dogs. She is currently working on her second novel. For the latest news, see her website at www.wendyholden.com, or contact her via her pages on Facebook or Twitter. She writes a regular blog on her website and is developing an e-book app for her many titles.
