Allison Pearson

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Allison Pearson (born 1960) is a regular columnist for the British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mail. Prior to joining the Mail she was a columnist with London's Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph. She began her career with The Independent on Sunday, where she was a TV critic, winning Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards in 1993.

Pearson has presented Channel 4's J'Accuse; BBC Radio 4's The Copysnatchers and appeared as a regular panellist on The Late Review (Newsnight Review's predecessor).

She has written one novel, [I Don't Know How She Does It] (2002), a lightweight 'chick-lit' take on the pressures of modern motherhood.

Pearson is unmarried,[citation needed] but lives with Anthony Lane, acclaimed film critic for The New Yorker magazine. They have two children.