Craig Brown



Profile:


Full name: Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown

Area of interest: Politics / Satire

Journals: The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail

Email:

Website: Telegraph.co.uk | MailOnline

Blog:

Agent: PFD

Network:



Biography:
Education: Eton College; University of Bristol

Career: As a freelance journalist, contributed to: The Tatler, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review; wrote a column for the Evening Standard, parliamentary sketchwriter at The Times - published as A Life Inside; The Sunday Times: TV and restaurant critic (continuing the restaurant column in The Sunday Telegraph): The Mail on Sunday: book reviews. Telegraph columnist until December 2008
 * see: The disembowelling of the Daily Telegraph, Roy Greenslade, 9th December 2008
 * Wikipedia: biography

Current position:

Other roles: Mail on Sunday book reviews, contributes a fortnightly Diary in Private Eye

Other activities: Author

Viewpoints/Insight: Interview: Craig Brown's Schooldays

Controversy:

TV/Radio: BBC: This is Craig Brown; IMDb

Awards/Honours: What the Papers Say 'General Pleasure award'

Other: Devised the characters of 'columnist' Bel Littlejohn, an ultra-trendy liberal, in The Guardian, and Wallace Arnold, an extremely reactionary conservative, in The Independent on Sunday



Books & Debate:
Books: The Marsh-Marlowe Letters: The Correspondence of Gerald Marsh and Sir Harvey Marlowe: Volume One, 1983, "edited" by Craig Brown (Heinemann, 1984), ISBN 0-434-08885-4; Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (Century, 1993), ISBN 0-7126-5783-5; The Hounding of John Thomas, a sequel to Lady Chatterley's Lover (Century, 1994), ISBN 0-7126-5778-9; Hug Me While I Weep for I Weep for the World, by "Bel Littlejohn" (Little, Brown, 1998), ISBN 0-316-64716-0 The Little Book of Chaos (Time Warner, 1998), ISBN 0-7515-2657-6; The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, completed by Craig Brown (Black Spring Press, 1999), ISBN 0-948238-24-0; This Is Craig Brown (Ebury Press, 2003), ISBN 0-09-188807-7; Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends': The Collected Parodies 2000-2004 (Private Eye, 2004), ISBN 1-901784-37-1; 1966 and All That (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005), ISBN 0-340-89711-2

Latest work: The Tony Years OCLC 70398923, 2006

Speaking/Appearances:

Current debate: 

The Daily Telegraph: Way of the World
Column remit: Parodies and probes political and cultural figures and events

Section: News

Role: Columnist / satirical writer

Pen-name:

Email:

Website: Telegraph.co.uk / Craig Brown

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Tuesday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 750 words



Articles:

 * Drink to Ethics, David'' - a look at some of the moral and dipsomaniac tendencies of popular music in this week's Morley Askew's A-Z - 25th November 2008
 * drunks with the party sat-nav'' - 18th November 2008
 * Harrowing of Barack O'Bama'' - Craig Brown lists 11 things you most certainly didn't know about the President-Elect - including his Irish ancestors and the name of his dead pet mouse, Hope - 11th November 2008
 * music: From CAP to Don't'' - a look at some of the high points in popular music - 4th November 2008
 * Lloyd Webber's mission not really so very impossible'' - 21st October 2008
 * credit crunch: your questions answered'' - 14th October 2008
 * Askew's A-Z of Popular Music'' - 7th October 2008
 * Logico-Pizzeria'' - Ludwig Wittgenstein's logical philosophy applied to a popular Italian food - 30th September 2008
 * to Callas, Maria by Morley Askew'' -an A-Z of Popular Music - 23rd September 2008
 * you didn't know about the Big Bang'' - Pessimists argue that the world will come to an end a few seconds later; others maintain that, whatever happens, it will have all been worthwhile - 9th September 2008
 * A to Z of popular music'' - 2nd September 2008
 * A-Z of Seaside Fun (part 3)'' - From Punch and Judy to sandcastles and sleeping, Gordon Brown narrates the rest of his A-Z of Seaside Fun to Craig Brown - 5th August 2008
 * A-Z of Seaside Fun (part 2)'' - The gentleman who rented us a deckchair on the beach yesterday morning informed me that in the months of November to March, he had managed to rent very few - 2nd August 2008
 * A-Z of Seaside Fun (part one)'' - I have it on expert advice that there is little chance of a major avalanche on any British beach this summer - 29th July 2008



The Daily Telegraph: Craig Brown on Saturday
Column remit: Political comment and satire

Section: Features / Comment

Role: Columnist / satirical writer

Pen-name:

Email:

Website: Telegraph.co.uk / Craig Brown

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 1100 words



Articles:

 * news: Barack Obama urges end of hope; Jonathan Ross presents shipping forecast'' - 29th November 2008
 * Week in Review: The world had never seen a paso doble to compare'' - 22nd November 2008
 * Barack Obama, humble congratulations from Heather Mills, Bono and Fergie'' - 8th November 2008
 * baby may be perfect joke'' - Like so many jokes, it may lose something in the re-telling. Yet the Queen has become the latest in a line of 63 million people to tune into a YouTube clip of a baby roaring with laughter - 18th October 2008
 * an odd game of Consequences'' - The news is full of mismatched people saying curious things to one another - 11th October 2008
 * for the Credit Crunch'' - will the Queen be serving cheese on toast at banquets and Sir Philip Green hosting parties in KFC? - 4th October 2008
 * collapse of the English language'' - 27th September 2008
 * down the pan for Britain'' - looking forward to the Labour Party Conference - 20th September 2008
 * things nice and untidy'' - When I spotted the headline "Britain's dirtiest home", his heart missed a beat. Had someone I know snitched on me? - 13th September 2008
 * memorabilia, holy relics of our time'' - how the ephemera of celebrities now occupy the same position as the relics of saints once did - 6th September 2008
 * Sun Has Got His Hat On: A Summer Commentary by Dr Rowan Williams'' - 9th August 2008

archive



Latest news & updates:

 * Brown sugars Daily Mail's sourness'' - Keith Waterhouse's successor has been well chosen - Peter Preston, The Observer, 13th Sep 2009
 * Daily Telegraph drops Craig Brown and AN Wilson - Columnists Craig Brown and A.N. Wilson have become the latest and highest-profile departures from Telegraph Media Group - Oliver Luft, The Guardian, 8th December 2008



Links:

 * Wikipedia biog.