Jonathan Self

Jonathan Self (born 1959) is a British author and journalist. He began his career as an advertising copywriter and in 1982 founded Self Direct, a direct-marketing agency. He sold his business in 1993.

Self's father, the academic Peter Self, and his mother, Elaine Self, moved to England from the United States and worked in the publishing industry.[1] His brother, Will Self, is a novelist and broadcaster.[2] Both Self and his brother have described their parents' marriage as troubled.[1]

Self has written for the British media including Country Life, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Mail on Sunday. In 2009 he collaborated with Arabella Lennox-Boyd on Welcome to Dream Acres, a Country Life series about landscape gardening.[3]

Self-published an autobiography, Self Abuse, in 2001. The Times stated that Self "is a talented writer with an extraordinary family history to relate. He catalogues the failings of a family so dysfunctional and cruel that even with his talent for sardonic one-liners the tone is one of unrelenting despair."[4] In a humour column of The Guardian, a one-line summary of the book states, "The brother of the more famous Will ODs in therapy and splurges the results over 247 pages".[5]

In 1982 Self was briefly married to the artist Jo Self, the mother of his eldest son.[6] After divorcing her, he had two sons with financial journalist Perrie Croshaw,[7] then ended their domestic partnership.[8] In 2009 he married Marianne van Pelt, an American equestrienne and journalist.[9][10][11] Their marriage celebration included a ceremony in Grand Central Station at the spot where they first met in person.[12] They lived in Connecticut and upstate New York before moving to County Cork, Ireland.[13] He divorced her in 2013 and moved to Malta,[14] while she continued to reside, write, and ride in Ireland.[15]

He is one of the founders of Honey's Real Dog Food[16] and a former trustee of the World Land Trust.[17]

Works

External links

Official website

References

  1. 1 2 Hayes, M. Hunter (2007). Understanding Will Self. Univ of South Carolina Press. pp. 9–. ISBN 9781570036750. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  2. ↑ Neustatter, Angela (18 October 2007). "Relative Values: Jonathan Self and his brother Will". The Sunday Times. http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/fashion/trends/article73672.ece
  3. ↑ "Welcome to Dream Acres". 5 May 2009. http://www.countrylife.co.uk/countryside/article/322342/Welcome-to-Dream-Acres.html
  4. ↑ "Bad memories". The Times. 23 November 2002. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  5. ↑ "Self Abuse by Jonathan Self". The Guardian. 20 July 2001. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Jonathan Self (29 November 2005). "Visions of loveliness". The Times. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  7. ↑ http://sevenmilepress.wordpress.com/about/
  8. ↑ Jonathan Self (15 January 2005). "All my sons". The Times. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
  9. ↑ http://westcorktimes.com/home/sticks-and-stones-john-kellys-first-exhibition-as-an-irish-artist/
  10. ↑ http://horsetalk.co.nz/2014/05/26/if-i-never-sold-another-painting-still-paint-horses/#axzz32lewdJfd
  11. ↑ See articles by her in The Irish Field (weekly) such as: "Global Trade", 3 May 2014; "Training for the Top", 10 May 2014; "Going Dutch", 17 May 2014.
  12. ↑ Brawarsky, Sandee (9 January 2009). "Marianne Van Pelt and Jonathan Self". New York Times. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  13. ↑ "Self Discovery" (PDF). Inspire Magazine (Inspire Books). Summer 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  14. ↑ "Self News"
  15. ↑ http://horsetalk.co.nz/2014/05/26/if-i-never-sold-another-painting-still-paint-horses/#ixzz32scjv6Ym
  16. ↑ "About our book". Honey's Real Dog Food. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
  17. ↑ "About our philanthropy". Honey's Real Dog Food. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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