Rowan Pelling

Rowan Pelling

Rowan Dorothy Pelling (born January 17 1968 in Toys Hill, Kent) is a female British journalist and broadcaster, who first achieved note as the editor (or "editrice", to use her term) of a monthly literary/erotic magazine (now quarterly), entitled the "Erotic Review".

She studied English at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and after graduating worked at the satirical magazine "Private Eye", she then went on to work for GQ magazine where she met her husband Angus Makinnon. [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article355195.ece The Erotic Review uncensored - Media, News - Independent.co.uk ] ] She transformed Jamie Mclean's Erotic Print Society's slim foolscap newsletter into the "Erotic Review" in 1997, a popular magazine whose circulation peaked at 30,000 plus.

Rowan Pelling has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines, including regular columns for the "Independent on Sunday", the "Mail on Sunday", "GQ" and "Jack". She was a judge of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. She is now a columnist for the "Daily Telegraph", working on her first novel and is the mother of two sons. She lives in Cambridge. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3602318.stm BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Booker judge hails writing talent ] ]

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