Dame Jacqueline Wilson, creator of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather and The Illustrated Mum, is a multi-award-winning author and consistent favourite with both readers and critics. A former Children's Laureate, Jacqueline has won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Children's Book of the Year Award. The CBBC adaptation of The Story of Tracy Beaker is one of the channel's highest rating shows ever and has led to two spin-off series. Jacqueline is a visiting professor of creative writing at Roehampton University and has just been appointed Chancellor there. Jacqueline was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to children's literature. Born in Bath in 1945, Jacqueline has lived most of her life in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. She has one daughter, three pampered cats and an energetic dog.