Laura Barton (born 1977) is an English journalist and writer. She writes mainly for The Guardian, and wrote a novel, Twenty-One Locks, published in 2010.
Biographyedit
Barton was born in and grew up in the village of Newburgh in Lancashire, and was educated at Winstanley College[1] and read for an English degree at Worcester College, Oxford[citation needed]. Following graduation[citation needed], she began writing for The Guardian from 2000 specialising in writing features. She has also written for Q magazine, The Word, and Intelligent Life, and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Much of her writing relates to rock and pop music, and until late 2011 she wrote a fortnightly column about music for The Guardian's Film and Music supplement, called "Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll", as well as a weekly column on women's issues for the newspaper's G2 supplement, called "The View from a Broad".[2]
Barton married in 2004.[3] She subsequently divorced.[4]
Referencesedit
^Barton, Laura (23 November 2009). "Lady Ashton went to my school". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ abThwaite, Mark (5 August 2010). . Quercus Books. Archived from the original on 7 December 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^. The Friday Thing. 27 August 2004. Archived from the original on 26 August 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^Barton, Laura (24 December 2017). "'The last time I went home for Christmas was five years ago. I was a terrible guest'". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
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