Sue Townsend also wrote the screenplays for television adaptations of the first and second books. The books have been adapted for radio, television and theatre, the first book being broadcast on radio in 1982, and Adrian Mole:The Wilderness Years (1993) and Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (1999) also being serialised for radio. They have been followed by several more in the same series including Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993) Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) and most recently The Lost Diaries of Adrian Mole, 1999-2001 (2008). These two books made her the best-selling novelist of the 1980s. The first of these, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 was published in 1982 and was followed by The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1984). Other plays followed including The Great Celestial Cow (1984), Ten Tiny Fingers, Nine Tiny Toes (1990), and most recently Are You Sitting Comfortably? but she has become most well-known for her series of books about Adrian Mole. At the age of 35, she won the Thames Television Playwright Award for her play Womberang (published in Bazaar and Rummage, 1984) and started her writing career. She worked in a variety of jobs including factory worker and shop assistant, joining a writers' group at the Phoenix Theatre, Leicester in her thirties. Sue Townsend was born in Leicester in 1946 and left school at 15 years of age.
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