Which fictional schoolboy is the eponymous subject of books by Francesca Simon?
Francesca Simon Francesca Simon Francesca Isabella Simon (born February 23, 1955) is an American author who resides in London. She is most famous for writing the "Horrid Henry" series of children's books. She is the daughter of screenwriter, director and playwright Mayo Simon. Simon was born in St Louis, Missouri, U.S. she grew up in California and studied at Yale and Jesus College, Oxford, where she majored in medieval studies and Old English. Simon changed careers and worked as a journalist, writing for the "Sunday Times", "Guardian", "Mail on Sunday", "The Daily Telegraph" and "Vogue" (US). Simon's favourite writer is Anthony Trollope.
The Honourable Schoolboy Asia was considered prohibitively expensive and therefore the BBC instead adapted the third novel of the Karla Trilogy "Smiley's People" (1979) which was transmitted in 1982. In 1983 the BBC adapted "The Honourable Schoolboy" to radio. Martin Jarvis played Jerry Westerby and Peter Vaughan played George Smiley. A subsequent BBC radio adaptation, first broadcast in 2010 in the Classic Serial slot, featured Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley and Hugh Bonneville as Jerry Westerby, as part of Radio 4's year-long project to adapt all eight Smiley novels. The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John