Ben Elton Ben Elton Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on series such as "The Young Ones" and "Blackadder", as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 15 novels and written the musicals "We Will Rock You" (2002) and "Love Never Dies" (2010), the sequel to "The Phantom of the Opera". His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and
Chapters: My Growth as a Writer Chapters: My Growth as a Writer Chapters: My Growth as a Writer is a 1982 autobiography by Lois Duncan. In "Chapters: My Growth as a Writer", Duncan describes how she included real life experiences in her short stories. Her stories include "The Fairy in the Woods", which she wrote when she was 10 and was rejected by all of the magazines she submitted the story to, and "The Reason", which she wrote at age 13 and was accepted for publication. Duncan also recounts her transition from writing short stories and poems for magazines to writing her first books. In 1982,