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Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson (born Julie Susan Pike; 2 June 1960) is an English author and critic. As well as fiction and non-fiction books, she formerly wrote a column in The Guardian entitled "Living with Teenagers", based on her family experiences. She appeared regularly as a panellist on the arts programme Newsnight Review.
Myerson studied English at Bristol University and then worked for the National Theatre as a press officer.
She has written a column for The Independent about her domestic trials, including her partner, the screenwriter and director Jonathan Myerson, and their children Jacob (known as Jake), Chloe and Raphael. Since then, she has written a column for the Financial Times about homes and houses. Myerson was a regular reviewer on the UK arts programme, Newsnight Review, on BBC Two.
Myerson's novels are usually dark in mood, tending towards the supernatural.
Her first was Sleepwalking (1994), which was to some degree autobiographical. It deals in part with the suicide of an uncaring and abusive father. (Myerson's own father had committed suicide.) The main character Susan is heavily pregnant and begins an affair. She also feels she is haunted by her father's mother, reliving the neglect that had made him abusive. The book was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
In The Touch (1996), a group of young people try to help a tramp who preaches fundamentalist Christianity and turns violently against them. In Me and the Fat Man (1999), a waitress takes to earning extra giving oral sex in a park, though not out of necessity. She gets involved with two other men, friends who have an awkward relationship and a secret between them that turns out to be related to her own birth. Laura Blundy (2001) is set in the Victorian period. Julie Myerson tries to bring out the freshness and modernity of the period as it would have appeared at the time. Something Might Happen (2003) is about a murder in a Suffolk seaside town based on Southwold, where Myerson has a second home.
The novel Nonfiction was published in 2022.
Julie Myerson was the anonymous author of "Living with Teenagers", a Guardian column and later book that detailed the lives of a family with three teenage children. The column ended after one of the children was identified and ridiculed at school, although Myerson had denied being the author three times to her own children, only coming clean when it became clear there was no other option. After The Guardian confirmed the authorship, it removed the articles from its website to "protect their privacy".
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Julie Myerson
Julie Myerson (born Julie Susan Pike; 2 June 1960) is an English author and critic. As well as fiction and non-fiction books, she formerly wrote a column in The Guardian entitled "Living with Teenagers", based on her family experiences. She appeared regularly as a panellist on the arts programme Newsnight Review.
Myerson studied English at Bristol University and then worked for the National Theatre as a press officer.
She has written a column for The Independent about her domestic trials, including her partner, the screenwriter and director Jonathan Myerson, and their children Jacob (known as Jake), Chloe and Raphael. Since then, she has written a column for the Financial Times about homes and houses. Myerson was a regular reviewer on the UK arts programme, Newsnight Review, on BBC Two.
Myerson's novels are usually dark in mood, tending towards the supernatural.
Her first was Sleepwalking (1994), which was to some degree autobiographical. It deals in part with the suicide of an uncaring and abusive father. (Myerson's own father had committed suicide.) The main character Susan is heavily pregnant and begins an affair. She also feels she is haunted by her father's mother, reliving the neglect that had made him abusive. The book was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
In The Touch (1996), a group of young people try to help a tramp who preaches fundamentalist Christianity and turns violently against them. In Me and the Fat Man (1999), a waitress takes to earning extra giving oral sex in a park, though not out of necessity. She gets involved with two other men, friends who have an awkward relationship and a secret between them that turns out to be related to her own birth. Laura Blundy (2001) is set in the Victorian period. Julie Myerson tries to bring out the freshness and modernity of the period as it would have appeared at the time. Something Might Happen (2003) is about a murder in a Suffolk seaside town based on Southwold, where Myerson has a second home.
The novel Nonfiction was published in 2022.
Julie Myerson was the anonymous author of "Living with Teenagers", a Guardian column and later book that detailed the lives of a family with three teenage children. The column ended after one of the children was identified and ridiculed at school, although Myerson had denied being the author three times to her own children, only coming clean when it became clear there was no other option. After The Guardian confirmed the authorship, it removed the articles from its website to "protect their privacy".