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Tess Stimson was born and brought up in Sussex, England. As a child, she lived
for several years in Greece and Africa, before winning a scholarship to Notre
Dame School, Lingfield. She subsequently read English at St. Hilda’s College,
Oxford, where she received the Eleanor Rooke Award (for English
Literature), the Dorothy Whitelock Award (for Anglo-Saxon), and was made
an Exhibitioner.
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After graduating, Tess joined ITN (Independent Television News), where she
reported and produced regional and world stories, travelling to hotspots and
war-zones all over the globe.
In 1991, she left ITN to write her first book, Yours Till the
End, the biography of Beirut hostage Jackie Mann, and moved to Cyprus
with her then-husband, CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, with whom she has two
sons, Henry and Matthew.
Her first novel, Hard News, set in the world of
television news, was published in 1993 to immediate acclaim and became an
instant bestseller. Later that year, she moved to Rome, Italy, where she wrote
Soft Focus (1995), and Pole Postion (1996).
Both were commercial and critical successes. All three novels were translated
into several languages.
In 1997, Tess moved to Beirut, Lebanon, from whence she juggled reporting on
the Middle-East for CNN, BBC and NTV (Lebanese television) with raising a
family. She also freelanced for UK-based TV stations Sky, Channel Five and
other cable channels, and wrote for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday,
Daily Express, You and Glamour Magazine and The
Times.
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In 2000, following her divorce, Tess moved back to London with her children.
Two years later, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the
University of South Florida.
She left USF in 2004 to return to full-time writing and journalism, becoming a
regular feature columnist for the Daily Mail newspaper. Her novels,
The Adultery Club and
The Infidelity Chain, went straight into the Top Ten Bestseller List on
publication in the UK in January 2007, and was translated into 19 languages.
Her new novel, The
Cradle Snatcher, will be published by
Pan Macmillan in January 2009. It has also been sold to a number of
other countries. Tess is also working on a non-fiction handbook,
Beat the Bitch! How to stop the Other Woman stealing your man, which
will also be published by Pan
Macmillan in Spring 2009.
Tess is married to Erik Oliver, with whom she has a daughter, Lily. She lives
in Florida with her husband and three children and is currently working on her
latest book, The Cradle Snatcher.
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