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Craig Edward Moncrieff Brown (born
23 May 1957,
Hayes,
Middlesex) is a
British artist,
critic,
satirist, and
writer from
England, probably best known for his work in
Private Eye.
Biography
Craig Brown was educated at
Eton and
Bristol University and then became a freelance
journalist in
London, contributing to
The Tatler,
The Spectator,
The Times Literary Supplement,
Literary Review, the
Evening Standard (as a regular columnist),
The Times (notably as parliamentary sketchwriter; these columns were compiled into a book called
A Life Inside) and
The Sunday Times (as TV and restaurant critic). He later continued his restaurant column in
The Sunday Telegraph and has contributed a weekly book review to
The Mail on Sunday.
He created the characters of
Bel Littlejohn, an ultra-trendy
liberal, in
The Guardian, and
Wallace Arnold, an extremely reactionary
conservative, in
The Independent on Sunday. In 2001, he took over
Auberon Waugh's "Way of the World" in
The Daily Telegraph following Waugh's death. However, he's probably best known for his
Diary in the fortnightly satirical magazine
Private Eye, in which he adopts the persona of a celebrity or other public figure. His targets have included
the Queen,
Jackie Collins,
Bill Clinton,
Martin Amis, and the publicist
Max Clifford. A typical (and famous) reference, characteristically combining viciousness and honesty in the Diary came in the purported entry for
Mary Archer, married to convicted perjurer
Jeffrey Archer, "I am the chairman of the Ethics Committee at Addenbrookes hospital, and well used to coming down hard on those who lie incompetently." Another typical Eye Diary mocks
Martin Amis's pretensions - "Why pray, is it necessary to point out at this post-millennial juncture that Iosef Stalin is no mate of this 52-year-old novelist? Why, indeed?".
Brown also writes comedy shows such as
Norman Ormal for TV (in which he appeared as a returning officer), and his radio show
This Is Craig Brown was broadcast on
BBC Radio 4 in 2004. It featured comics
Rory Bremner and
Harry Enfield and other media personalities.
He has appeared on television as a critic on BBC2's
Late Review as well as in documentaries such a
Russell Davies's life of
Ronald Searle.
His book
1966 and All That takes its title, and some other elements, from
1066 and All That. A
BBC Radio 4 adaptation followed in September 2006, in similar vein to
This Is Craig Brown.
The Tony Years is a comic overview of the years of
Tony Blair's government, published in paperback by Ebury Press in June 2007.
Bibliography
- 1984 - The Marsh-Marlowe Letters: The Correspondence of Gerald Marsh and Sir Harvey Marlowe: Volume One, 1983, "edited" by Craig Brown (Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-08885-4)
- 1993 - Craig Brown's Greatest Hits (Century, ISBN 0-7126-5783-5)
- 1994 - The Hounding of John Thomas, a sequel to Lady Chatterley's Lover (Century, ISBN 0-7126-5778-9)
- 1998 - Hug Me While I Weep for I Weep for the World, by "Bel Littlejohn" (Little, Brown, ISBN 0-316-64716-0)
- 1998 - The Little Book of Chaos (Time Warner, ISBN 0-7515-2657-6)
- 1999 - The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery by Kyril Bonfiglioli, completed by Craig Brown (Black Spring Press, ISBN 0-948238-24-0)
- 2003 - This Is Craig Brown (Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-188807-7)
- 2004 - Craig Brown's 'Imaginary Friends': The Collected Parodies 2000-2004 (Private Eye, ISBN 1-901784-37-1)
- 2005 - 1966 and All That (Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 0-340-89711-2)
- 2006 - The Tony Years (Ebury Press, ISBN 0-09-190969-4, paperback ISBN 9780091909703)
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