Susanna Gross has been literary editor of The Mail on Sunday[1] since 1999 and bridge columnist for The Spectator since 2000.
Gross was born in London and educated at the University of York.
The daughter of literary critic and writer John Gross and literary editor Miriam Gross, and the granddaughter of humanitarian Kurt May, she is married to the novelist and critic John Preston.
[1][3] Her brother Tom Gross is a journalist and international affairs commentator, specialising in the Middle East.
[4] Since her mother's remarriage, Gross is the stepdaughter of Sir Geoffrey Owen.