Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Geoffrey Albert Wheatcroft (born 23 December 1945 in London) is a British journalist and writer.
[edit] Education
He was educated at University College School, London, and at New College Oxford, where he read Modern History.
[edit] Publishing and journalism
He started work in publishing in 1968, working for Hamish Hamilton (1968-70), Michael Joseph (1971-73), and Cassell & Co (1974-75).
In 1975 he became the assistant editor of The Spectator, moving to the post of literary editor, which he occupied from 1977 to 1981. During the period 1981-84, he worked as a reporter in South Africa before becoming editor of the Londoner's Diary gossip column in the London Evening Standard, 1985-86. He was a Sunday Telegraph columnist 1987-91, freelance 1993-96; feature writer on the Daily Express, 1996-97; and has since written for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Boston Globe, The American Conservative, and other publications on both sides of the Atlantic.
His book The Controversy of Zion won a National Jewish Book Award.[1]
[edit] Marriage and family
He married in 1990 Sally, the daughter of Frank Muir. They live in Bath with their two children Abigail and Gabriel.
[edit] Books
- The Randlords (1985)
- Absent Friends (1989)
- The Controversy of Zion (1996)
- The Strange Death of Tory England (2005)
- Le Tour (2007)
- Yo, Blair! (2007)
[edit] References
- ^ Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Most favored nation, Boston Globe, April 2, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Wheatcroft on The Guardian
- Biography of Geoffrey Wheatcroft on The Atlantic Monthly (accessed 24 September 2007)
- Wheatcroft author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
[edit] Sources
Who's Who (2008 edition) s.v. Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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