British comic author Sue Townsend dies at age 68

British comic author Sue Townsend dies in England at age 68.

Townsend died on Friday in Leicester. Tom Weldon, chief executive of Penguin Random House U.K., said Townsend "will be remembered as one in a handful of this country's great comic writers," according to the Associated Press. "She was loved by generations of readers, not only because she made them laugh out loud, but because her view of the world, its inhabitants and their frailties was so generous, life-affirming and unique."

Her first popular book was the comic novel, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾. The book sold more than 20 million copies. The book was about the character, Adrian Mole. The series of books about the character were adapted for stage and television. Townsend won the Thames Playwright Award for her play, Womberang, according to Sky. Her most recent book, Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years, was published in 2009.

The Queen and I envisioned a future in which a republican British government banished the royal family to live with common people. The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year was published in 2012.