Lin Sampson

Lin Sampson (born 1941) is a South African columnist who writes regularly for the Sunday Times magazine LifeStyle. Sampson has also been published by other South African titles; Style, Femina and Fair Lady. Outside of South Africa she has been published by the London Sunday Times, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent.^[1] She was a resident in Greece for several years and edited the English-language newspaper, Athens News. In 2005 she published Now You've Gone and Killed Me, a collection of columns dating back to 1982 and with a foreword written by Rian Malan.^[2]

Background

Sampson was born in Solan, India and moved to South Africa when she was 14. Her father was a third-generation South African and her mother was British. She was partly educated in England and at Oxford University followed by a period working in London.^[3]

She has also worked as an Africa correspondent, working in the Sudan in the 1980s.^[3]

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