Caitlin Moran is the eldest of eight children, home-educated on a council estate in Wolverhampton, believing that if she were very good and worked very hard, she might one day evolve into Bill Murray.
She published a children's novel,The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of 16, and became a columnist atThe Timesat 18. She went on to be named Columnist of the Year five times. At one point she was also Interviewer and Critic of the Year, which is good going for someone who still regularly mistypes 'the' as 'hte'. Her multi-award-winning bestsellerHow to Be a Womanhas been published in 25 countries and won British Book Awards Book of the Year 2011. Her second book,Moranthology, was aSunday Timesbestseller, and her novelHow To Build a Girl, debuted at number one. She co-writes the Channel 4 sitcomRaised by Wolveswith her sister, Caroline.
Caitlin lives on Twitter with her husband and two children, where she spends her time tweetingeitherabout civil rights issues,orthat picture of Bruce Springsteen when he was 25, and has his top off. She would like to be remembered as 'a very sexual humanitarian'.