Monica Porter is a journalist and author who was born in Budapest, Hungary. Her family escaped after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and she grew up in New York before moving to London.
She began her career in the Seventies as a staff writer on the weekly Local Government Chronicle, and turned freelance after the birth of her first son in 1978.
She has written for British newspapers including the Daily Mail (for which she has been penning the weekly column, Missing and Found, since 1999), The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and London Evening Standard.
She has also contributed to numerous magazines, including Reader’s Digest, Business Life, Woman’s Own, Good Housekeeping and Psychologies.
She is the author of six non-fiction books. Benny and Bobby versus Adolf is her first children’s novel. Monica has two sons and four grandchildren, and lives in London.
