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Lynn Barber

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Lynn Barber's interviews have won five British Press Awards and a What the Papers Say award. There are two published collections, Mostly Men and Demon Barber, both from Viking. She has also written books on Victorian naturalists, and sex - her first book was called How To Improve Your Man in Bed. Born in l944, she read English at Oxford before working for Penthouse magazine for seven years, then the Sunday Express, The Independent on Sunday, the Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, The Daily Telegraph, before joining the Observer in l996

April 2025

  • Patrick McMullan Archives<br>NEW YORK CITY, NY - APRIL 26: (L-R) Diane von Furstenberg, Graydon Carter, Anna Scott, Fran Lebowitz and Wes Anderson attend VANITY FAIR Tribeca Film Festival Party hosted by Graydon Carter and Robert DeNiro at The State Supreme Courthouse on April 26, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Photos - Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

    Observer book of the week
    When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – all the fun of the Fair

    In his memoir the former Vanity Fair editor and man-about-town recalls the golden age of glossy magazines, when sales were in the millions and ‘the budget had no ceiling’

January 2019

  • Guy Kennaway at his home, wearing bright blue jeans and a mustard-coloured top, leaning back on a sofa with a huge painting behind him

    Guy Kennaway: My sister said, ‘Well done Guy, you killed Mummy!’

    When his 88-year-old mother asked him to buy heroin so she could end her life, the author Guy Kennaway decided there was only one thing to do: write a book about it. Lynn Barber hears what happened next…

August 2009

  • Rachel Cusk in Brighton

    Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt

  • Michael Clark at London's Barbican Centre last month

    The interview: Michael Clark

July 2009

  • Lynn Barber interviews Goldie

    The interview: Goldie

    The star drum'n'bass producer and DJ stunned audiences last year by coming second in the BBC talent show for wannabe conductors, Maestro, and has just been commissioned to compose a new work for this year's Proms. What next for this unpredictable talent? asks Lynn Barber

June 2009

  • Lynn Barber as a teenager

    My harsh lesson in love and life

    Observer writer and interviewer Lynn Barber was an innocent 16-year-old schoolgirl when she met an older man and began a relationship that lasted two years

May 2009

  • Rosamund pike studio photo

    "I don't sleep around, if that's what you mean ... Would you like some more cake?"

    Actress Rosamund Pike invites Lynn Barber round for afternoon tea and a chat - about on-stage nudity, turning 30 and the heartache of being jilted by her ex-fiancé, director Joe Wright

March 2009

  • Playwright Polly Stenham

    The interview: Polly Stenham

  • Alain De Botton in an office

    Office affairs

January 2009

  • Obs Review Zephaniah

    The interview: Benjamin Zephaniah

    The man who once turned down an OBE tells Lynn Barber about his traumatic childhood, his infertility, fear of old age - and why, at 50, he still feels like a child

  • Angela Gorgas

    All the young dudes back in their salad days

    Exhibition review: Martin Amis and Friends, National Portrait Gallery, London WC2
    There's a nostalgic charm in a series of intimate portraits of Martin Amis and friends, says Lynn Barber

  • From the bland to the blonde

    No one knew who the new models were, and no one cared. Then came Agyness Deyn. By Lynn Barber

December 2008

  • Lynn Barber

    'Girls hated sex. So I was told'

    Lynn Barber grew up before feminism, when girls trod a fine line between keeping boys at bay and catching one...

October 2008

  • John Prescott

    Honest John

    As he gets ready to quit the Commons, John Prescott tells Lynn Barber why he is truly in a different class

  • No more Mr Nice Guy

    Interview: Since he became Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has shed his buffoon image and discovered a new dedication to work. The key, he tells Lynn Barber, is overcoming the need to be liked

  • Gary Hume

    Profit and gloss

    Gary Hume talks about stealing electricity, the boredom of painting hospital doors and why all he wants now is a little peace and quiet

September 2008

  • How to write
    Features

  • Giles Deacon

    Why the fashion editors love Giles

July 2008

  • Why Katie Grand is the most-wanted woman in fashion

    Friend of Madonna, Stella and Agyness. Editor of the magazine that persuades A-listers to take their clothes off. Katie Grand has come a long way since being a nerdy, weight-obsessed teenager who dreamt of editing Vogue. Lynn Barber meets an icon of cool

June 2008

  • 📺 Info Siaran: profile/lynnbarber - Jadwal Siaran LangsungThis party's such a drag

    Lynn Barber

    When smokers met up to bemoan the one-year-old ban, Lynn Barber found the company made her choke - David Hockney excepted

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