# Deborah Curtis

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{{Short description|British writer and widow of Ian Curtis (born 1956)}}
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{{Infobox person
| birth_name         = Deborah Woodruff
| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|13 December 1956|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool)
| occupation         = Writer
| spouse             = 
{{marriage|[Ian Curtis](/source/Ian_Curtis)|1975|1980|end=d|}}
}}

'''Deborah Curtis''' ([née](/source/Birth_name) '''Woodruff'''; born 13 December 1956) is a British writer who is the widow of [Joy Division](/source/Joy_Division) singer [Ian Curtis](/source/Ian_Curtis), who died by suicide in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Lisa |date=2014-10-08 |title=Ian Curtis' wife felt 'angry' and 'humiliated' about being subject of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/joy-division-16-1242125 |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=NME}}</ref>

She met [Ian Curtis](/source/Ian_Curtis) at school.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barlow |first=Nigel |date=2015-02-16 |title=Campaign to set up an Ian Curtis museum at the Joy Division singer's former Macclesfield home |url=https://aboutmanchester.co.uk/campaign-to-set-up-an-ian-curtis-museum-at-the-joy-division-singers-formermacclesfield-home/ |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=About Manchester}}</ref> They married on 23 August 1975, at St Thomas' Church in [Macclesfield](/source/Macclesfield).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jongh |first=Daniel de |date=2025-08-22 |title=Remembering Ian Curtis On His Wedding Day 23 August, 1975 |url=https://disciplinemag.com/features/ian-curtis-wedding-day/ |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=Discipline Mag}}</ref> In 1995, she wrote ''[Touching from a Distance](/source/Touching_from_a_Distance)'', a detailed biographical novel about the life of Ian Curtis, from his teenage years until his untimely death.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clay |first=Milo |date=2022-04-02 |title=Ian Curtis and Joy Division: A fan's guide to Macclesfield |url=https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/ian-curtis-joy-division-fans-23563003 |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=Cheshire Live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-14 |title=Unknown Pleasures at 40: The Life, the legend and the legacy of Ian Curtis, Joy Division's lead singer |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/ian-curtis-death-joy-division-macclesfield-songs-a8947566.html |access-date=2025-09-25 |website=The Independent |first=David |last=Barnett |author-link=David Barnett (writer) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614120109/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/ian-curtis-death-joy-division-macclesfield-songs-a8947566.html |archive-date=14 June 2019}}</ref> 

Deborah Curtis is co-producer of the film adaptation of this novel, ''[Control](/source/Control_(2007_film))'', directed by [Anton Corbijn](/source/Anton_Corbijn) and released in 2007. In this film, she is played by [Samantha Morton](/source/Samantha_Morton).

== Bibliography ==

* ''[Touching from a Distance](/source/Touching_from_a_Distance)'' (1995)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [https://wikidata-externalid-url.toolforge.org/?p=345&url_prefix=https://www.imdb.com/&id=nm1722281 Deborah Curtis] at [IMDB](/source/IMDb)
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Category:1956 births
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Category:Writers from Liverpool

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