Deborah Curtis

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Deborah Curtis (née Woodruff; born 13 December 1956) is a British writer who is the widow of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She met Ian Curtis at school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> They married on 23 August 1975, at St Thomas' Church in Macclesfield.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1995, she wrote Touching from a Distance, a detailed biographical novel about the life of Ian Curtis, from his teenage years until his untimely death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Deborah Curtis is co-producer of the film adaptation of this novel, Control, directed by Anton Corbijn and released in 2007. In this film, she is played by Samantha Morton.