Posy Simmonds was born in Berkshire in 1945. She studied graphic design and illustration at the Central School of Art and Design in London and got her first newspaper gig in 1969 with a daily cartoon in the Sun. Her long association with the Guardian began in 1972. The paper serialised her middle-class satires Gemma Bovery in the late 1990s and Tamara Drewe in 2005-6; both became graphic novels and were later turned into feature films. Simmonds lives in London with her husband, the graphic designer Richard Hollis. Her exhibition Posy Simmonds: Dessiner la littérature is at the Pompidou Centre in Paris until 1 April 2024.
