Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill (born July
1959) is a British
journalist noted for her acerbic writing. She started her career writing for the
New Musical Express after responding, with her husband-to-be Tony Parsons, to an advert in that paper seeking
hip young gunslingers to write about the then emerging
punk rock movement. Until
2003 wrote a weekly column in
The Guardian.
Her departure was caused by disagreements with the editorial staff
caused by her pro-
Israel views in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She currently writes for
The Times. She has written the books
The Boy Looked at Johnny (co-written with Parsons,
1977),
Ambition (1990),
No Exit (1993),
Married Alive (1998), and
I Knew I Was Right (1998) (an
autobiography).
She has been married twice, first to Parsons and secondly to Cosmo Landesman. She has one son from each marriage.
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