Jacqueline Wilson Jacqueline Wilson Dame Jacqueline Wilson (née Aitken; born 17 December 1945) is an English novelist who writes for children's literature. As her children's novels frequently feature themes of adoption, divorce, and mental illness, they attract controversy. Four of her books appear in the BBC's The Big Read poll of the 100 most popular books in the UK. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, Wilson was a UK nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014. Wilson is the author of many book series. Her "Tracy Beaker" series, inaugurated in 1991 with "The Story of Tracy Beaker",
Jacqueline Wilson books in the UK: "Double Act", "Girls In Love", "Vicky Angel", and "The Story of Tracy Beaker". Fourteen books by Wilson ranked in the top 200. In 2002 she replaced Catherine Cookson as the most borrowed author in Britain's libraries, a position she retained until being overtaken by James Patterson in 2008. Wilson has won many awards including the Smarties Prize and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. "The Illustrated Mum" (1999) won the annual Guardian Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and the annual British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year; it