Waiting for Princess Margaret

Emma Tennant was born in London, England on October 20, 1937. Before becoming an author and editor, she worked as a journalist for Queen magazine and Vogue. Her first novel, The Colour of Rain, was written under the pseudonym of Catherine Aydy in 1963. The book written under her own name included Pemberley, Burnt Diaries, Strangers: A Family Romance, Felony, A House in Corfu, Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde, and Girlitude: A Memoir of the 50s and 60s. She edited the literary journal Bananas and was the editor the Viking series Lives of Modern Women. She died following a long illness on January 20, 2017 at the age of 79.