Allison Pearson (née Judith Allison Lobbett, born 1960, Carmarthen) is a British writer. She is best-known as a Daily Mail columnist and for a novel published in 2002, I Don't Know How She Does It.
She attended Market Harborough Upper School (now Robert Smyth School), then Lincoln Christ's Hospital School, both comprehensive schools. She went to the University of Cambridge, then taught at an inner London school. She also sold advertising.
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Allison Pearson (née Judith Allison Lobbett, born 1960, Carmarthen) is a British writer. She is best-known as a Daily Mail columnist and for a novel published in 2002, I Don't Know How She Does It.
She attended Market Harborough Upper School (now Robert Smyth School), then Lincoln Christ's Hospital School, both comprehensive schools. She went to the University of Cambridge, then taught at an inner London school. She also sold advertising.
Prior to joining The Mail, Pearson was a columnist with London's Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph. She began her career with The Independent where she was a sub-editor, before moving toThe Independent on Sunday in 1992, where she was assistant to Blake Morrison before becoming a TV critic, winning Critic of the Year at the British Press Awards in 1993.
Pearson has presented Channel 4's J'Accuse; BBC Radio 4's The Copysnatchers and appeared as a regular panellist on The Late Review (the predecessor of Newsnight Review).
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