About Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is an English playwright, novelist and screenwriter. She has written nineteen novels, including The Ex-Wives (1993), Tulip Fever, These Foolish Things and Heartbreak Hotel (2013). Her film scripts include Pride and Prejudice (2005). At Oxford University Press, she met the man who became her first husband, Tony Moggach; the couple later divorced. Her two historical novels are Tulip Fever (1999), set in Vermeer’s Amsterdam, and In The Dark (2007), set in a boarding house during the First World War. Pride and Prejudice (2005), starring Keira Knightley, for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, Goggle-Eyes, from Anne Fine's novel, which won a Writers Guild Award. In 2005, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bristol; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a former Chair of the Society of Authors and was on the executive committee of English PEN.
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