Frances Lynn

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Frances Lynn is an English journalist and author.{{cite news |first=Nicholas |last=Coleridge |title=The best place to shoot the gossips

|publisher=The Evening Standard |page=19 |date=1982-08-02 |quote="I met Frances Lynn who was then writing a very cafe society gossip column in Ritz Newspaper. She was absolutely crazy in those days. One evening we were having dinner and she suddenly said that she'd written a book, basically about herself and her life reporting parties. I immediately commissioned her to write me a treatment for a possible film." --Nicholas Coleridge}}{{cite news |first=Barry |last=Fantoni |title=Ritzy Lynne |publisher=Evening News |quote=Francis "Lynne (Franny to the few friends she has left) wins my accolade as the bitchiest gossip columnist in town. As high-priestess of the single-entendre, she has assassinated everybody who is anybody in her two-page column in the bi-monthly magazine, Ritz. Her list of victims includes people like Elkie Brooks, Roman Polanski, Diana Rigg, Yves St. Laurent, Elton John and the Eagles. I would like to give some examples of her killing technique - but I can't in case I get into trouble. Asked if she had, in fact, received any writs lately she replied demurely: 'Of course not'. In a more familiar vein, she added: 'If I had, I wouldn't tell you, dahling.'"}}

Biography

Lynn was born in St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington in London, and was educated at Malvern Girls' College.

In 1977, Lynn started her journalistic career when she became the film editor and gossip columnist for the now defunct Ritz Newspaper, published by David Bailey. Interview subjects included Frank Zappa.{{cite web |quote=Oh yes. We played three dates at the Odeon Hammersmith. You were probably doing something sophisticated at the time and weren't aware. (Zappa) |url=http://afka.net/Mags/Ritz.htm |title=Ritz Newspaper, UK, "British monthly 80's fashion magazine with good long interviews" |publisher=afka.net |accessdate=2007-12-07 |date=January 1983}} She also wrote the initial treatment, entitled Frantic: A Story About a Gossip Columnist, whose characters included a certain Romo Dolonski, a Polish film director out on bail for abducting a 12-year-old girl, for Don Boyd's abortive 1982 film Gossip.{{cite book | editor= Dan North |title= Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films |publisher= Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=January 2008 |isbn= 978-1-84718-426-9}}

During the 1990s Lynn contributed stories (seven Future Shocks and one Dragon Tales) to 2000 AD.{{cite web|title=2000AD Writer: Frances Lynn|url=http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=droid&page=thrills&Comic=2000AD&Field=Writer&choice=francesl| year=2007|publisher=2000adonline.com|author=Lynn, Frances}}{{Cite comic | Writer = Lynn, Frances | Artist =Jennet, Stuart | Story = Blossom | Title = 2000 AD | Issue = 714 | Date = 19 January 1991 | Publisher = IPC Media }}{{Cite comic | Writer = Lynn, Frances | Artist =Bradbury, Eric | Story = Robot | Title = 2000 AD | Issue = 718 | Date = 16 February 1991 | Publisher = IPC Media }}{{Cite comic | Writer = Lynn, Frances | Artist =McCarthy, Jim | Story = The Birthday | Title = 2000 AD | Issue = 918 | Date = 16 December 1994 | Publisher = IPC Media }}

In 2006, her two novels, Crushed and Frantic, were both published by Eiworth Publishing.{{Cite book |isbn=978-0-9553672-3-6 |last=Lynn |first=Frances |year=2006 |publisher=Eiworth Publishing |title=Crushed}}{{cite book |last=Lynn |first=Frances |publisher=Eiworth Publishing |title=Frantic |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-9553672-8-1}}

In 2010 Willing To Die For It, her biography of Dr Sammy Lee, was published by Murray Print.{{Cite book |isbn=978-0-9539089-1-2 |last=Lynn |first=Frances |year=2010 |publisher=Murray Print |title=Willing To Die For It}}