Alan Coren
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Alan Coren (born 27 June 1938, London) is a British writer and satirist. Coren attended Wadham College, Oxford, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley.
He is a regular panellist on The News Quiz and Call My Bluff and writes both his own and the Notebook columns for The Times. Coren was editor of Punch from 1978 to 1987, and of The Listener from 1987 to 1989, and he has also written for Penthouse and The Daily Mail. Coren also wrote an unsuccessful vehicle for Leonard Rossiter in 1978, The Loser, about a boxing promoter.
His son Giles Coren and daughter Victoria Coren have both followed him into journalism.
[edit] Partial bibliography
- Waiting for Jeffrey (Robson Books, 2002) ISBN 1-86105-595-1
- The Cricklewood Tapestry (Robson Books, 2000) ISBN 1-86105-374-6
- The Cricklewood Dome (1998)
- Alan Coren Omnibus (1996)
- A Bit on the Side (1995)
- Alan Coren's Sunday Best (1993)
- Toujours Cricklewood? (1993)
- A Year in Cricklewood (1991)
- More Like Old Times (1990)
- Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren (1989)
- Bumf (1984)
- The Cricklewood Diet (1982)
- Tissues for Men (1981)
- Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz (1979)
- Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1978)
- All Except The Bastard (1978)
- Golfing for Cats (1975)
- The Sanity Inspector (1974)
- Idi Amin Bulletins (Punch 1973)
- The Dog It Was That Died (1965)
[edit] External links
- The Times - Alan Coren column archives
