Cathy Hopkins
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For the The Apprentice (UK) candidate, see Katie Hopkins
Cathy Hopkins (born 1953, Manchester) is a British writer.
Hopkins lived in Kenya until she was eleven. When she was eighteen, her parents returned from Africa and she went to study at Manchester Art College, dropping out after a year to join a rock and roll band named "Driving Rock and the Rockettes", which toured local colleges and universities as the warm up band to groups such as Wizzard and The Average White Band.
Hopkins worked as an occupational therapist in a mental hospital before returning to college and gaining a degree in comparative religion. She started writing books in 1986, and trained as an aromatherapist to supplement her writing. She wrote sixteen non-fiction books on various subjects ranging from health to humour, further supplementing her income by reading scripts for the comedy department at the BBC, and reviewing newspapers every Friday on Sky News for two years.
In 2001, she started writing teenage fiction. To date (2007), she has had 42 books published in 25 different countries, including the "Mates, Dates series", the "Truth, Dare, Kiss or Promise" series and the "Cinnamon Girl" series.
