Lynn Barber

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Lynn Barber (born 1944 in Bagshot, Surrey, England) is a British journalist, currently writing for The Observer.

She read English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Several anthologys of her interviews have been published. She is known for her dry wit and sometimes quite harsh analysis of her interviewees.

Barber worked for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then for the Sunday Express, The Independent on Sunday, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Observer.

She has won five British press awards. Her books include two collections of interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, a sex book How to Improve Your Man in Bed, and a survey of Victorian popular natural history writers, The Heyday of Natural History. A memoir she wrote for Granta is currently being made into a film by Nick Hornby.


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