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Some of the writings from this era formed part of her first collection Loose Talk, published by Michael Joseph. These articles and her freelance contributions to The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph earned her the Catherine Pakenham Award for the best journalist under 25.
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Evans was knighted in 2004.Īfter graduating, while doing freelance reporting, Brown was invited to write a weekly column by the literary humour magazine, Punch.
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They had two children: a son, George, born in 1986, and a daughter, Isabel, born in 1990.
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They lived together in New York City until Evans' death on 23 September 2020. Evans divorced in 1978 and, on 20 August 1981, he and Brown married at Grey Gardens, the East Hampton, New York, home of The Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. When a relationship developed between Brown and Evans, she resigned to write for the rival The Sunday Telegraph. In 1973, the literary agent Pat Kavanagh introduced Brown's writings to Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday Times, and in 1974 she was given freelance assignments in the UK by Ian Jack, the paper's features editor and in the US by its colour magazine edited by Godfrey Smith. A subsequent play, Happy Yellow, in 1977 was mounted at the London fringe Bush Theatre and was later performed at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. While still at Oxford, she won The Sunday Times National Student Drama Award for her one-act play Under the Bamboo Tree which was performed at the Bush Theatre and The Edinburgh Festival. Later, she went on to date the writer Martin Amis. Her friendship with Waugh served as a boost to her writing career, as he used his influence to ensure that her ability was recognised. Brown wrote for the New Statesman while she was still an undergraduate at Oxford. As an undergraduate, she wrote for Isis, the university's literary magazine, to which she contributed interviews with the journalist Auberon Waugh and the actor Dudley Moore. She studied at St Anne's College, and graduated with a BA in English Literature. īrown entered the University of Oxford at the age of 17. Offences included organising a demonstration to protest against the school's policy of allowing a change of underwear only three times a week, referring to her headmistress's bosoms as "unidentified flying objects" in a journal entry, and writing a play about her school being blown up and a public lavatory being erected in its place. In Brown's own words she was considered "an extremely subversive influence" as a child, resulting in her expulsion from three boarding schools. Bettina was of part Iraqi descent Tina recounted, "She was dark and I never knew why." Her mother, Bettina Kohr, who married George Brown in 1948, was an executive assistant to Laurence Olivier on his first two Shakespeare films. Her elder brother, Christopher Hambley Brown, became a film producer. Her father, George Hambley Brown, was active in the British film industry as a producer, including the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford. Tina Brown was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, and grew up in the village of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire. In 2010 she founded live journalism platform Women in the World, which she ran until 2020. In 2000, she was appointed a CBE ( Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to overseas journalism, and in 2007 was inducted into the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame. She was founding editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, serving from 2008 to 2013.Īs an editor, she has received four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club awards, and ten National Magazine Awards. Having been editor-in-chief of Tatler magazine at the age of 25 in London, she edited Vanity Fair from 1984 to 1992 and The New Yorker from 1992 to 1998. Born a British citizen, she now holds joint citizenship after she took United States citizenship in 2005, following her emigration in 1984 to edit Vanity Fair. Christina Hambley Brown, Lady Evans CBE (born 21 November 1953), is an English journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host, and author of The Diana Chronicles, (2007) a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Vanity Fair Diaries (2017) and The Palace Papers (2022).