Louise Rennison (11 October 1951 – 29 February 2016) was an English author and comedian who wrote the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series for teenage girls.

[2] Rennison was brought up in Leeds, Yorkshire, in a three-bedroomed council house in Seacroft with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle (Robin) and cousin.

[1] On returning to the UK, Rennison lived in a small flat in Notting Hill doing an assortment of jobs until she decided to pursue her dream of acting and enrolled in a Performing Arts course at the University of Brighton.

[3] In Brighton, she was part of Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie's dance company, Six Divas, performing in their 1986 show, Torei en Veran Veta Arnold!.

[4] With 'Barmy' Jane Bassett, Joanna Boyce and Sarah Tompkinson she created a female cabaret group, Women with Beards, that poked fun at men and why they are responsible "for all the ills of society.

Her newspaper column was written about whatever personally interested her, such as how pointless it is to date over 35, and led to an invitation from Picadilly Press to write a teenage diary book.

[8] Rennison wrote a number of sequels to Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, and in 2010 began a second series based on Georgia's cousin, The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.

The books detail events in one year of the life of a teenage girl named Georgia Nicolson as she grows up in England, along with a group of her close friends known as 'the Ace Gang.'

A continual source of humour within the series derives from Georgia's family; her free-spirited mother, embarrassing father and grandfather, and eccentric younger sister, along with infamously bald Uncle Eddie.

She creates nicknames for countries by combining a key national cultural feature with the suffix "a-gogo-land"; e.g., the USA is Hamburger-a-gogo-land, and New Zealand is Kiwi-a-gogo-land.

A glossary is featured in the back of each novel to explain the meaning of her many peculiar phrases, such as 'red-bottomosity' (Georgia's term for unfaithfulness in relationships), as well as things, people, or concepts that international readers may not be familiar with, such as Rolf Harris.