Kate Kellaway
Kate Kellaway (born 15 July 1957) is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for The Observer.
The daughter of the Australians Bill and Deborah Kellaway,[1] her younger sister is the journalist Lucy Kellaway. Both siblings were educated at the Camden School for Girls, where their mother was a teacher,[2] and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where Kate Kellaway read English.[3]
Following a period teaching in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1986,[4] she began her career in journalism at the Literary Review[5] and became deputy to then editor Auberon Waugh around 1987.[6]
Kellaway later joined The Observer where her posts have included features writer, deputy literary editor, deputy theatre critic and children's books editor.[7] While The Observer's poetry editor.[8] Kellaway was one of the five judges for the Booker Prize in 1995.[9]
Kellaway is married and has four sons and two step-sons.[10]
References
- ↑ Hester Robinson Obituary: Deborah Kellaway, The Guardian, 27 January 2006
- ↑ Williams, Sally (25 April 2010), "Lucy Kellaway interview for In Office Hours", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 19 December 2011
- ↑ "Prominent LMH Alumni", Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
- ↑ Kate Kellaway "Once upon a time in Africa", The Guardian, 16 April 2000
- ↑ Lynn Barber "Waugh Stories", The Guardian, 21 January 2001
- ↑ Kate Kellaway "It's good to be rude", The Observer, 8 September 2000
- ↑ "Literary Festival (2011) - Julie Myerson talks to Kate Kellaway Then", London Jewish Cultural Centre
- ↑ Marianne MacDonald and John McKie "Amis given short shrift as his novel fails to make the shortlist", The Independent, 29 September 1995
- ↑ "The Booker Prize 1995", The Man Booker Prize website
- ↑ Jenni Murray That's My Boy, London: Vermilion (Random House), 2003, p.30
External links
- Kate Kellaway - articles on theguardian.com website
- Kate Kellaway - articles on the New Statesman magazine website
- Kate Kellaway - articles on the Prospect magazine website