Sam Baker (writer)

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Sam Baker is the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan in the UK. Baker was born in Hampshire, and studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines, including Red, New Woman, Chat, and Take a Break. After re-launching teenage magazine Just Seventeen as J-17, she spent five years as editor of UK women's magazine Company, before resigning to write her first novel, Fashion Victim (described by Time magazine as one of the five break-through first novels of the Summer of 2005.)

Baker also broadcasts on young women's issues. Sam lives in Winchester, Hampshire and central London with her partner, the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood.