On my radar: Alexandra Shulman’s cultural highlights

The editor of British Vogue and novelist on Bill Clegg’s Did You Ever Have a Family, Sally Clarke’s recipes and David Hockney’s early drawingsAlexandra Shulman OBE has been editor-in-chief of British Vogue since 1992, making her the longest-serving editor in the magazine’s history. She was born in London in 1957, and after studying social anthropology at the University of Sussex and a brief foray into the music industry, started working at Tatler in 1982. She then worked for the Sunday Telegraph, Vogue and GQ, where she became editor in 1990; she has also written columns for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. She published her debut novel, Can We Still Be Friends, in 2012, and her new novel, The Parrots (Penguin £14.99), is out now. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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