Lynn Barber
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Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is a British journalist, currently writing for The Observer.
Barber is from Bagshot, Surrey, and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.
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.
In 2006 she was one of the judges for the Turner Prize and wrote an article in The Observer critical of some aspects of the judging process.[1] She currently appears on TV in "Grumpy Old Women".