Dolly Alderton

Dolly Alderton is a half-Canadian[1] British journalist, author and podcaster. She is a columnist in The Sunday Times. Her memoir Everything I Know About Love[2][3] won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography[4][5] and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards (won by Michelle Obama for Becoming).[6] In 2019 she was a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction.[1][7]

In 2020 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's Great Lives, nominating American actress Doris Day.[8]

Her first novel Ghosts was published in October 2020 by Fig Tree.[9]

Selected publications
  • Alderton, Dolly (2019). Everything I Know About Love. Penguin. ISBN 9780241982105. (Reissued "With a new chapter on everything I know at thirty")
  • Alderton, Dolly (15 October 2020). Ghosts: a novel. Fig Tree. ISBN 978-0241434543.

References
  1. "About". Dolly Alderton. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  2. Ermelino, Louisa (20 December 2019). "A Memoir That Serves as a Playbook for Your 20s". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  3. Burchill, Julie (13 February 2018). "Everything I Know About Love is a shockingly intimate memoir from former sex columnist Dolly Alderton". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  4. "Specsavers National Book Awards 2018". Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  5. "Dolly Alderton". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  6. "Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year". British Book Awards. The Bookseller. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  7. "Announcing the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction Winner". Women's Prize for Fiction. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  8. "Dolly Alderton on Doris Day". Great Lives. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  9. Doyle, Martin (9 September 2020). "Thirty books to look out for this autumn". Irish Times. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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