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Valerie Grove (born 1946 in South Shields) is a British journalist and writer for many years a feature writer interviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper.After graduating from Girton College Cambridge she joined the London Evening Standard in 1968 eventually becoming that newspaper’s literary editor.She has published biographies of writers Dodie Smith (1996) Laurie Lee (1999) and John Mortimer (2007).