Brian Viner is an award-winning journalist and author, born in October 1961.
Viner was educated at King George V School, Southport, then at St Andrews University. In 1985/6 he was a Robert T Jones Memorial Scholar at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was a columnist on The Independent from January 1999 to December 2011, and is now freelance. He previously wrote for the Mail on Sunday, where in 1997, as that newspaper's TV critic, he won a What the Papers Say Award. He is the author of five books, all non-fiction. Tales of the Country and its sequel The Pheasants' Revolt recount the story of his, and his family's, move from London to Herefordshire.[1] Ali, Pele, Lillee & Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies recalls his childhood as a sports enthusiast,[2] and Nice To See It, To See It Nice: The Seventies in Front of the Telly is similarly a memoir, but about television. His latest book, Cream Teas, Traffic Jams and Sunburn: The Great British Holiday was voted Travel Book of the Year in The 2011 British Travel Press Awards. In 2010 Tales of the Country was adapted for the stage by the Pentabus Theatre Company.[1]
He is married to the novelist Jane Sanderson. They have three children and live in Herefordshire, England.