Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She attended Wakefield Girls’ High School and Barnsley Sixth Form College before going on to St Catharine’s College, Cambridge to study modern and medieval languages. For fifteen years she taught modern languages at Leeds Grammar School before finally giving up teaching in 2000 to write full time. She is the author of ten novels, including Chocolat - which was made into an academy award nominated movie in 2001 – a book of short stories and two cookbooks, The French Kitchen and The French Market, co-written with Fran Warde.
Joanne Harris is married and lives in Huddersfield with her husband Kevin and her daughter, Anouchka.