Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as an editor on Nova magazine, The Observer and The Sunday Times. On marriage to a diplomat she re-orientated her career into writing books and, whilst travelling the world with her husband, has published two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus: Hidden Treasures of the Old City, and the best selling Diplomatic Baggage.,. Keenan has lived and travelled in many countries in the Arab world and in Asia. She is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. 

January 1st, 1939 in India (Age 85)