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Anne Billson (b. 1954) was born in Southport, England, and currently lives in Paris, France. Growing up in Exeter and the south London suburb of Croydon, she took a Foundation Course in Art & Design at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (1971-72) and a degree course in Graphic Design at London’s Central School of Art & Design (1972-76). She worked as a bookshop assistant, sign-writer, window dresser, secretary, cookery-book illustrator, unqualified English teacher, lyric-writer for Japanese pop-singers, cinema cashier, and once appeared as a Dutch girl in a Japanese television commercial. As a stills photographer, her pictures have been published in Time Out, Event, Illustrated London News, Mode et Mode, Fashion News, Men Only, Tatler, Options, Elle, Vogue, Daily Express, Soho Weekly News and other periodicals, and she has had exhibitions of her work held in Tokyo and London. Turning to journalism, her articles have appeared in the Sunday Telegraph, Monthly Film Bulletin, The Erotic Review, GQ, Time Out, Event, City Limits, The Times, Vogue, Elle, Harpers & Queen, Esquire, Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer, The Sunday Times and Playbirds, and she was the regular film critic for Today (1986), The Sunday Correspondent (1989-90), Tatler (1989-90), New Statesman & Society (1991-92) and the Sunday Telegraph (1992-2001). Her 1989 novelization of Dream Demon was deemed to be too good to tie-in with the film, and she followed it with the revisionist vampire novel Suckers (which earned its author a place on Granta’s “Best Young British Novelists” list) and the darkly comic ghost story Stiff Lips. Billson’s nonfiction books include Screen Lovers, My Name is Michael Caine, and a study of John Carpenter’s The Thing for the BFI Film Classics series.