Alan Coren

   

Alan Coren (born 1939) is a British writer and satirist. He is a regular panellist on The News Quiz with Simon Hoggart, and Call My Bluff. He writes both his own and the Notebook column for The Times of London. He has also written for Penthouse and The Daily Mail, and was editor of Punch magazine from 1978 to 1987.

He attended the University of Oxford, Yale University and University of California, Berkeley.

His son Giles Coren and daughter Victoria Coren have both followed him into journalism.

Partial bibliography

  • Waiting for Jeffrey (Robson Books, 2002) ISBN 1861055951
  • The Cricklewood Tapestry (Robson Books, 2000) ISBN 1861053746
  • A Bit on the Side (1998)
  • Alan Coren Omnibus (1996)
  • Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren (1995)
  • Alan Coren's Sunday Best (1993)
  • A Year in Cricklewood (1991)
  • The Cricklewood Diet (1984)
  • Cricklewood (1983)
  • Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz (1980)
  • Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1978)
  • All Except The Bastard (1978)
  • The Sanity Inspector (1976)
  • Golfing for Cats (1976)
  • Idi Amin Bulletins (Punch 1973)
  • The Dog It Was That Died (1965)

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