Rachel Campbell-Johnston (born October 1963) is ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' (f ...
'' newspaper's chief art critic.
Appointed to her post in 2002, she has also been her newspaper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor.
''Mysterious Wisdom'', her biography of artist
Samuel Palmer
Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 180524 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and pr ...
was published in 2011.
''Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer''
Bloomsbury Publishing ''The Child's Elephant'', a novel about an African boy who rears an elephant, set against the backdrop of child soldiers fighting for a rebel army was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize.
See also
* Lustfaust
References
External links
Journalisted - Articles by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
1963 births
British journalists
The Times people
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
British women journalists
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