Christopher Booker
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Christopher John Penrice Booker (born October 7 1937) is an English journalist and editor, educated at Shrewsbury School. He was a founding editor of Private Eye at the height of the British Satire Boom, but he was forced out in the magazine's early days by Richard Ingrams. He has, however, remained a regular contributor and joke writer on the magazine since its inception. In the late 1960s he wrote The Neophiliacs, a critical review of the media response to the cultural changes of the period 1954-1964, and one of the first books on the decade to take a 'disabused' line.
He is the co-author, with Richard North, of The Great Deception, a book criticising the European Union. He has pursued a journalistic career, particularly with anti-EU commentary, as a columnist, notably in The Sunday Telegraph.
More recently he published The Seven Basic Plots of Literature: Why We Tell Stories, to mixed reviews.<ref>Guardian Online, Creative licence, Saturday 27 November 2004. Retrieved 29 October 2006.</ref>
He was formerly married to the criminal barrister Christine Stone - she is now married to the historian Norman Stone. Booker had no children during his marriage to Christine. The marriage was dissolved. Christine has a son Rupert (born 1983) with her second husband.
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