DeLaney, Shelagh

Shelagh Delaney was born in Salford, Lancashire. She is most well-know for a "Taste of Honey", for which she won the Foyle's New Play Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She wrote the screenplay for the film version with Tony Richardson and was awarded the British Film Academy Award and the Robert Flaherty Award. Her other screenplays include "The White Bus" and "Charley Bubbles", for which she won the Writers Guild Award. She has also written for television and radio and has had a collection of short stories published. She died in 2011.