Caitlin Moran

Caitlin Moran is one of Britain’s most influential columnists, interviewers and critics and an award-winning author. She is well known and loved for her feminist activism and humorous exploration of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. 

Raised and home-schooled on a council estate with her seven siblings, she always knew she would be a writer. By age 16 she was a regular music journalist and had published her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo. Within a few more years she was hosting her own Channel 4 music and culture show, and was a columnist at The Times. She continues to make readers of The Times laugh out loud with her weekly stories and think-pieces on the experiences of women and girls, sex, marriage and the existential joys and angsts of modern parenthood. 

Caitlin went publish books including the multi-award-winning bestseller How to Be a Woman, a memoir of her early life and learnings on feminism, and its sequel, More Than a Woman, exploring some of the lessons age brings what it means to be a middle-aged woman. Her first novel, How to Build a Girl, was also highly successful and was adapted into a feature film, and together with her sister Caroline, Caitlin wrote and produced the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves. She has also expanded the world of How to Build a Girl with How to be Famous, and taken her razor-sharp wit and analysis to modern men and concepts of masculinity with What About Men?

As well as writing books and columns, Caitlin has used her platform to draw attention to the prevalence of online abuse. She organised a boycott Twitter, partly in response to a slew of death threats sent to the campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. This led to Caitlin's own Twitter feed becoming a controversial addition to the list of English A-Level set texts. Amongst many awards, Caitlin has received several Columnist of the Year awards, as well as Interviewer and Critic of the Year.