Ed Docx

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Edward Docx is a British newspaper columnist, broadcaster and writer. His first novel, The Calligrapher was published in 2003.

Docx was born in 1972, and educated at St Bede's College, Manchester and Christ's College, Cambridge. At Christ's he read English Literature and was also president of the Junior Common Room.

On graduating Docx worked in various roles for the Daily Express newspaper, as a feature writer and columnist. As the paper's Literary Editor he interviewed writers including Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Tom Wolfe and Joseph Heller. As a freelance journalist he has written for The Times, The Independent, The Washington Post and The Spectator; he is a regular contributor to the True Fiction column in The Times.

Docx has also worked extensively in television and radio. He scripted and presented six editions of What the Papers Say, made more than 50 appearances on Liquid News and appeared as a panellist on The Wright Stuff.

Docx now works primarily as a writer of fiction. His first novel, The Calligrapher, was published by 4th Estate in 2003, and was well-received by many critics. For example, The Boston Globe described it as "...a delight, a witty, deftly written, honest comedy of manners".^[1]

Docx's second novel Self Help was published in July 2007 by Picador, and was longlisted for the 2007 MAN Booker Prize. Docx won the 2007 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for the novel.