Daisy Goodwin

Daisy Georgia Goodwin (born 19 December 1961) is a British television producer, poetry anthologist and novelist. 2Early life She is the daughter of film producer Richard B. Goodwin and interior decorator Jocasta Innes. Her half-brother is the writer Jason Goodwin, whom her father adopted. 2Career After attending the independent schools Queen's College, London and Westminster School, Goodwin studied history at Trinity College, Cambridge and attended Columbia Film School before joining the BBC as a trainee arts producer in 1985. In 1998, she moved to Talkback Productions as head of factual programmes, and in 2005, founded Silver River Productions. Her first novel, My Last Duchess, was published in the UK in August 2010 and, under the title The American Heiress, in the U.S. and Canada in June 2011. She has also published eight poetry anthologies and a memoir entitled Silver River, and was chairman of the judging panel for the 2010 Orange Prize for women's fiction. She has presented television shows including Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) (2003) and Reader, I Married Him (2006). She is the author of the 2016 novel, Victoria (9781250045461), and the creator/writer of the TV series Victoria airing in the UK on ITV, and in the US on PBS/Masterpiece in January 2017. 2Personal life Goodwin is married to Marcus Wilford, an ABC TV executive; they have two daughter