Lesley-Ann Jones

Lesley-Ann Jones is an acclaimed biographer, novelist, broadcaster and keynote speaker. She honed her craft on Fleet Street as a newspaper journalist. She is the bestselling author of Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury’s Secret Life and Love, the globally controversial book based on seventeen handwritten diaries left by the musician to his secret daughter; Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury; Hero: David Bowie; Who Killed John Lennon: the Lives, Loves and Death of the Greatest Rock Star; The Stone Age: Sixty years of the Rolling Stones; Fly Away Paul: How McCartney survived the Beatles, found his Wings and became a solo superstar and other published works. She has interviewed many of the world’s best-loved artists, including McCartney, Madonna, George Michael and Prince, often forming friendships with her subjects. She is published in thirty languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese; writes a regular newsletter at www.lesleyannjones.com ; continues to contribute freelance columns and features to the national press, and coaches private clients in creative writing. A mother of three, she lives in London and on the north Kent coast in South East England.