Date of birth - 20th September 1952
Place of birth - West Ham, London
Hair colour - Dark red
Ear wax colour - Dark red
Favourite nail varnish colour - Dark red
Eye colour - Dark red - Blue
Height - 5 feet, 6 inches
Weight - Mind your own business! "I have a slow metabolism!" (What a poor, scientific impossibility, and all-encompassing get-out clause that has become!)
Smoking - No. I gave up nine years ago after smoking twenty-five roll-up's a day for thirty years. Golden virginia is now a very distant memory! (And those pipes as well)
Drugs - Not any more. Last taken in 1973. Thanks to them, my brain is probably the colour of dark red.
Sexuality - Don't mind. Its what's inside a person's mind that counts. However...I have a stronger affinity with the female body.
Status - Single - stupid question!
Horoscope - Virgo with Taurus rising. I have a cluster of Saturn, Mercury, Sun, Moon, Uranus and venus in Libra. Go figure!
Chinese Horoscope - Dragon
Best Quality - Listening and a very wacky sense of humour! There's two!
Worst quality - Vanity and Intolerance. There's two!
Film Genre - Good romantic comedies
Favourite films - Oh, so many! Titanic, Love Actually, French Kiss, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, School for scoundrels (1960)
Blonde or Brunette - Don't mind. Its what's going on underneath that counts.
Heels or flats - Love both.
Favourite clothes - Two piece, dark, close-fitting dress suits with a clean white blouse. Black, comfortable two or three inch heels.
Vegetarian - No. Would like to but I'm too much of a baby to go all the way.
Hobbies - Making 3D art with my Mac.
Exercise - YES! Forty minutes on my treadmill every morning.
Pets - Do we really want to pull the pin on this grenade? Oh, okay! I absolutely do not believe in any form of pet keeping whatsoever. It amounts to a form of slavery and definitely a form of bullying in the vast majority of cases. Read the same for fishing, any form of racing and practically anything at all to do with using animals. See my book, 130,000 years.
Ideal future - Noble prize for literature (Stop laughing please)
Body Art - Absolutely none and never will except my ears are pierced.
Food - Often, the two Tic-Tats I have for breakfast carries me along until lunch but...a dish of whole grain brown rice and baked turkey with lemon juice and black pepper followed by a fresh red grapefruit is a treat.
Drink - Bottled water. Maybe diet coke.
Idols - (Not in this order of importance) Stephen Spielberg, Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Robert Ballard, John Fowles, Chuck Spezzano, Marianne Williamson...nearly all men! I just got that! Come on ladies, inspire me!
How would I like to be remembered? - As a transgendered woman who won the Noble prize for literature. (Please stop laughing!)