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Lady Caroline Conran (born April 2nd 193?) is writer of cookery books.

Early life
Caroline Conran was bornCaroline Herbert in Digswell, Herts. Her father was a business man running the Danish Bacon Company. During the war Caroline, her two elder sisters and her mother were sent off to America, but her mother didn’t enjoy it. So she came back with Caroline, 'to air raids and rationing and GIs in the park opposite the house and green oranges.' She went to school at Knebworth House, which she says 'gave her a bit of an idea of what gardens should be, because the garden had been done by Gertrude Jekyll'. She next went to boarding school in Suffolk and after that to to art school in Cambridge.

Work
She left home at the age of 17 and became a journalist, starting with a job on House & Garden helping build room sets. She then got a job on Queen Magazine and after a time became the home editor. She 'wrote about peoples’ houses, about lingerie, children’s clothes, and travel, but my favourite was food. So that really became my career.'

While she was at Queen Magazine she met and married Terence Conran in 196... She helped him set up Habitat and then went back to writing.

She freelanced as the Food Editor for The Sunday Times for about thirteen years, during that time wrote several food books. Her first, with Susan Campbell, was Poor Cook in 1971.

She also wrote The Conran Cookbook which sold over a million copies, and worked on all the Self-Sufficiency Campaigns in The Sunday Times including the Real Bread Campaign. She introduced the Nouvelle Cuisine to the UK by translating and editing books by French chefs such as Michel Guérard, Roger Verge, Alain Senderens and the Troisgros brothers. In the end, 'Rupert Murdoch came along and ruined The Sunday Times' and she left.

Terence and Caroline divorced in 1996 having been married for 30 years. Her book Sud de France won the Andre Simon Award for the best cookbook of 2012.