Lynn Barber

Lynn Barber (born 22 May 1944) is a British journalist, currently writing for "The Observer".

Barber is from Bagshot, Surrey, and studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford.

Barber worked for "Penthouse" magazine for seven years, then for the "Sunday Express", "The Independent on Sunday", "Vanity Fair", "The Sunday Times", "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Observer". Best known for her interviews, which can be excoriating, she was once quoted by Will Self as describing her method as "'start [ing] ... from a position of really disliking people, and then compel [ling] them to win you over." [Will Self [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990425/ai_n14219232/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 "Interview: The Doll Within",] "The Independent", 25 April 1999. Retrieved on 3 August 2008.]

She has won five British press awards. Her books include two collections of interviews, "Mostly Men" and "Demon Barber", a sex book "How to Improve Your Man in Bed", and a survey of Victorian popular natural history writers, "The Heyday of Natural History".

In 2006 she was one of the judges for the Turner Prize and wrote an article in "The Observer" critical of some aspects of the judging process. [Lynn Barber [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/turnerprize2006/story/0,,1884682,00.html "How I suffered for art's sake",] "The Observer", 1 October 2006. Retrieved on 3 August 2008.] She currently appears on TV in "Grumpy Old Women".

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