Sue Townsend .... RIP

Kind of a sad day today. **sigh**  
Thank You Sue Townsend for the wonderful Adrian Mole and all the laughs.

From BBC:
....Sue Townsend, author of Adrian Mole books, dies after short illness.  

Novelist Sue Townsend, best known as the author of the highly successful Adrian Mole series of books, has died, a family friend confirms to the BBC.

Townsend, 68, died at home on Thursday after a short illness.

The first of her comic series, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4, was published in 1982 and the eighth instalment, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, was released in 2009.

Her other best-selling novels included The Queen and I.

Townsend, who was left blind after suffering from diabetes for many years, achieved worldwide success following the publication of the books about teenager Adrian Mole.

In March 2013, she told the Oxford Literary Festival that publication of the next Adrian Mole book had been pushed back as a result of a stroke she had suffered.

She was diagnosed with diabetes in the 1980s and underwent a kidney transplant in 2009. She had the stroke around Christmas 2012.....