Kate Kellaway (born 15 July 1957) is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for ''

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''.

Early life

The daughter of the Australians Bill and Deborah Kellaway, she is the older sister of the journalist

Lucy Kellaway Lucy Kellaway (born 26 June 1959) is a British journalist turned teacher. She remains listed as a management columnist at the ''Financial Times'' (''FT''), and became a trainee teacher in a secondary school in 2017. She is a co-founder of th ...

. Both siblings were educated at the

Camden School for Girls The Camden School for Girls (CSG) is a comprehensive secondary school for girls, with a co-educational sixth form, in the London Borough of Camden in north London. It has about one thousand students of ages eleven to eighteen, and specialist- ...

, where their mother was a teacher, and at

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located on the banks of the River Cherwell at Norham Gardens in north Oxford and adjacent to the University Parks. The college is more formall ...

, where she read English.

Professional life

Following a period teaching in

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between 1982 and 1986, she began her career in journalism at the ''

Literary Review ''Literary Review'' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho. The magazine was edited for fourteen years by v ...

'' and became deputy to then editor

Auberon Waugh Auberon Alexander Waugh (17 November 1939 – 16 January 2001) was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron". After a traditional classical education at Downside ...

around 1987. Kellaway later joined ''The Observer'', where her posts have included features writer, deputy literary editor, deputy theatre critic and children's books editor. While ''The Observer''s poetry editor, Kellaway was one of the five judges for the

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in 1995. Kellaway is married and has four sons and two step-sons.

References

External links

Kellaway's portfolio
in ''The Guardian''
Kellaway's portfolio
in ''

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''
Kellaway's portfolio
in ''Prospect'' magazine 1957 births Living people Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford British journalists People educated at Camden School for Girls {{UK-journalist-stub