A Curious Career (25 page)

A Note on the Author

Lynn Barber is an award-winning British journalist. Several collections of her interviews have been anthologised. She read English Literature at Oxford, worked for
Penthouse
magazine for seven years, then for the
Sunday Express
,
Independent on Sunday
,
Vanity Fair
,
Observer
and
Sunday Times
. Her books include two collections of interviews,
Mostly Men
and
Demon Barber
, as well as two sex manuals and a study of Victorian naturalists. Her memoir,
An Education
, was made into an award-winning film starring Carey Mulligan and Rosamund Pike. She lives in north London.

@lynnbaba

By the Same Author

An Education

Demon Barber

Mostly Men

The Heyday of Natural History

The Single Woman’s Sex Book

How to Improve Your Man in Bed

First published in Great Britain 2014

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