Leslie Wilson Bio

Leslie Wilson is an England-born author of novels and short stories for adults and children.

She was born in 1952 in Nottingham to a German mother and an English father. She studied German at Durham University (St Aidan’s College), graduating in 1974 with a 2:1 degree. Her mixed-heritage upbringing in England in the years following the Second World War is a major influence on her writing. Leslie Wilson has lived in England, Germany and Hong Kong and now lives in Berkshire with a husband and a dog. She has two daughters and a grandson.