Fiona Dunbar
Fiona Dunbar was born in Hertfordshire. She left school when she was sixteen to go to Art College. Dunbar went on to begin a commercial art career in TV and advertising. After a stint doing illustration for Punch, Dunbar began illustrating for picture books by other authors. It was at this time that she met her American lawyer husband and lived in New York for a number of years, where her two children were born. Dunbar settled back in North London, where she still lives, and began to write for children instead of drawing for them.
Dunbar’s other great passion, besides writing, is cooking – a hobby that provided the inspiration for her first novel for children, The Truth Cookie, the first part in the critically and commercially acclaimed Lulu Baker trilogy which was recently made into a BBC TV series called JINX.
