Kate Kellaway

Kate Kellaway (born 15 July 1957)[citation needed] is an English journalist and literary critic who writes for The Observer.

Both siblings were educated at the Camden School for Girls, where their mother was a teacher,[2] and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read English.

[3] Following a period teaching in Zimbabwe between 1982 and 1986,[4] she began her career in journalism at the Literary Review[5] and became deputy to then editor Auberon Waugh around 1987.

[6] Kellaway later joined The Observer, where her posts have included features writer, deputy literary editor, deputy theatre critic and children's books editor.

[7] While The Observer's poetry editor,[8] Kellaway was one of the five judges for the Booker Prize in 1995.