death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place nationality name birth_date period spouse article_title birth_name occupation
11 june 1998 castle england , newcastle upon tyne , north east , catherine cookson catherine marchant katie mcmullen south shields , tyneside , england british catherine cookson 27 june 1906 1950 -- 98 tom death -rrb- cookson -lrb- m. 1940 -- 98 ; her catherine cookson
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catherine cookson

dame catherine cookson , dbe -lrb- 27 june 1906 -- 11 june 1998 -rrb- was an english author .
she became the united kingdom 's most widely read novelist , with sales topping 100 million , while retaining a relatively low profile in the world of celebrity writers .
her books were inspired by her deprived youth in south tyneside , north east england , the setting for her novels .
