Editing Anne Fine (section)

==Career==
Describing the start of her writing career, Fine has written: "In 1971 my first daughter was born. Unable to get to the library in a snowstorm to change my library books, in desperation I sat down and started to write a novel. Clearly this was the right job for me, for I have never stopped writing for more than a few weeks since".<ref name="Anne Fine official website">{{cite web | title= Anne Fine's Biography|url  =http://www.annefine.co.uk/biography.php| author= Anne Fine | website= annefine.co.uk | access-date= 27 February 2015}}</ref> In September 2010, Fine told ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'''s Jessica Salter that this first book lay under her bed after being rejected by two publishers, adding "Five years later I unearthed it and entered it in a competition where I was runner-up, and it was finally published in 1978".<ref name=telegraph/>

Her books for older children include ''[[Madame Doubtfire]]'' (1987), a satirical novel<ref>
Mary Ellen Snodgrass, ''Encyclopaedia of Satirical Literature'', Oxford, 1996, p. xv.</ref>
that [[Twentieth Century Fox]] filmed as ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'', starring [[Robin Williams]]. ''[[Goggle-Eyes]]'' ([[Hamish Hamilton]], 1989) was [[film adaptation|adapted]] for television by Deborah Hall for the [[BBC]].

Her books for middle children include ''[[Bill's New Frock]]'' (Methuen, 1989) and ''[[How to Write Really Badly]]'' (1996).

Her work has been translated into 45 languages.<ref name=translations />

In March 2014, Fine lent her support to the campaign [[Let books be books|Let Books Be Books]], which aims to persuade publishers of children's books to stop labelling and promoting books as "for boys" or "for girls". She told UK newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'': "You'd think this battle would have been won decades ago. But even some seemingly bright and observant adults are buying into it again […] There are girls of all sorts, with all interests, and boys of all sorts with all interests. Just meeting a few children should make that obvious enough. But no, these idiotic notions are spouted so often they become a self-fulfilling societal straitjacket from which all our children suffer".<ref name="Guardian 7 March 2014" >{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/07/parents-gender-boys-girls-books-let-books-be-books|title= Parents push to end gender division of boys' and girls' books |last=Flood|first=Alison |date=7 March 2014 |website=The Guardian | access-date=24 November 2014}}</ref>