|
Julie Burchill (born July 3, 1959) is a British journalist noted for her acerbic writing. She started her career writing for the New Musical Express after responding, with her husband-to-be Tony Parsons, to an advert in that paper seeking hip young gunslingers to write about the then emerging punk rock movement. Until 2003, she wrote a weekly column in The Guardian.
Her departure was caused by disagreements with the readers
caused by her pro-Israel and anti-Arab views in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She currently writes for The Times. She has written the books The Boy Looked at Johnny (co-written with Parsons, 1977), Love It or Shove It (1985), Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised (1987), Ambition (1989), Sex and Sensibility (1992), No Exit (1993), Married Alive (1998), I Knew I Was Right (1998) (an autobiography), Diana (1999) and On Beckham (2002).
She has written about and made a television programme regarding the death of her father from asbestosis.
She has been married twice, first to Parsons and secondly to Cosmo Landesman. She has one son from each marriage. She was recently married again, to a much younger man, and wrote of the joys of having a "toyboy" in her Times' Weekend Review column.
External links
|
