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Bingham has sold millions of copies of her Book s. Before becoming a romance novelist in the early 1980s , she wrote two Autobiographies , a novel, and collaborated with her husband, Actor Terence Brady on scripts for Television and the stage. Bingham comes from literary antecedents. Her father, John Bingham, the seventh Baron of Clanmorris , was a writer of detective stories and a secret member of MI5 , the British Secret Service . He served as the model for the character of spymaster George Smiley in the novels of John Le Carre . Her mother, Madeleine, was a Playwright . Bingham's literary career began with a splash when her autobiography, which she published when she was nineteen, became a bestseller. Coronet Among the Weeds ( 1963 ) is a humorous account of the life of a teenage daughter of a Lord . In it she describes trying on different poses - as a Beatnik , as a Debutante , as a Secretary and Typist , all with hilarious results. Mostly she is concerned with the overwhelming absence of worthwhile men (supermen) and the proliferation of "weeds, drips, and leches". She said about it: "I turned to writing at the age of eighteen because of an inability to master the arts of shorthand and typing. The resultant humorous book . . . has been described as a book about being a debutante, which I no longer bother to deny, having too much regard for my royalties." Bingham published her first novel, Lucinda, in 1966 and a second autobiography, '''Coronet Among the Grass''', in 1972 , before moving on to writing for TV and, later, romance novels. She won the Best Romantic Novel Award from the Romantic Novelists Association in 1996 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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