Louise Brown
Louise Brown
Louise Joy Brownis an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionOther
Date of Birth25 July 1978
funny running baseball
Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.
book fiction-novels perfect
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
men envy
I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.
girl dancing dozen
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers.
girl boys thinking
Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.
girl book believe
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
book reading interesting
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
book cooking eating
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.
book impact profound
I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.
book writing thinking
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.
peculiar abnormal normal-and-abnormal
I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
baby thinking way
I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.
book diaspora fiction-and-nonfiction
I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
somewhere-else people come-up
People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.