Wendy Holden, also known as Taylor Holden, is an experienced author and novelist with twenty books already published, including a novel, plus two screenplays. She has had numerous works transferred to radio and television.

A journalist for eighteen years, ten on the Daily Telegraph, her first novel, THE SENSE OF PAPER was published by Random House, New York, in 2006 to widespread critical acclaim. Her next, DAILY BREAD: The Diary of a Gaza Baker Boy is due to be published in 2010. Her non-fiction titles have chiefly chronicled the lives of remarkable subjects, such as the only woman in the French Foreign Legion in Tomorrow to BE Brave, the mother of a woman killed after marrying a Sudanese warlord in Till the Sun Grows Cold, and A Lotus Grows in the Mud the memoir of actress Goldie Hawn – all of which became New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellers.

She wrote Behind Enemy Lines, about a young Jewish spy who repeatedly crossed German lines, and Memories Are Made of This, a biography of Dean Martin as seen through his daughter’s eyes. She worked with Billy Connolly on JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD his TV-companion travel guide to the Northwest Passage, and co-wrote American male supermodel Bruce Hulse’s explosive memoir, SEX, LOVE AND FASHION. Other works have included Central 822, the autobiography of a pioneering policewoman at Scotland Yard, Biting the Bullet, charting the remarkable life of an SAS wife, and Footprints in the Snow, the story of a paraplegic made into a TV drama starring Caroline Quentin. Wendy was also responsible for the bestselling novelisations of the films The Full Monty and Waking Ned. Her first book, Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, the true story of the controversial Irish abortion case was banned in Ireland. Shell Shock, the history of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, went with an award-winning Channel 4 television documentary series. She lives in Suffolk, England, with her husband and four dogs.