Elizabeth Holden (5 June 1943 – 6 December 2013), better known by her pen name Louise Lawrence, was an English science fiction author best known for her work published in the 1970s and 1980s.
[1] Born Elizabeth Rhoda Holden on 5 June 1943 in Leatherhead, Surrey,[2] to bricklayer Fred Holden and cook Rhoda Edith (née Cowles),[3] she and her younger sister Catherine[4] attended Poplar Road Primary School, Leatherhead, between 1948 and 1954.
[2] The family then moved to the Forest of Dean, where her mother had been born and grew up,[4] and there Lawrence attended Lydney Grammar School between 1954 and 1961.
[4] Between 1961 and 1963 she worked as a junior assistant at the Gloucestershire County Library,[2] then left to marry Keith Wintle.
[2] In 1998 they moved to County Mayo in Ireland, where Lawrence continued to be active in writers' circles and festivals.