Miriam Gross

[7] Writing in The Spectator (6 June 1988), the historian Paul Johnson said that "the beautiful and elegant Miriam Gross is queen of the lit eds."

While at The Observer, she conducted a series of interviews,[9] with, among others, the poet Philip Larkin,[10] playwright Harold Pinter, thriller writer John le Carré, painters Francis Bacon and David Hockney,[11] Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, novelist Anthony Powell, philosopher and historian Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher A.J.

Gross has contributed to The Spectator, as the magazine's diarist,[13] and has written an occasional column for the Financial Times.

In England, she was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School[27] and at Oxford University where she read English literature at St Anne's College.

[30] Since 1993, she has been married to Sir Geoffrey Owen, the former editor of the Financial Times and formerly one of England’s leading tennis players.