Caitlin Moran (born Catherine Elizabeth Moran; 5 April 1975) is an English broadcaster, TV critic and columnist[1] at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column “Celebrity Watch”. Moran is British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011.[2]
Moran was convinced throughout her teenage years that she would become a writer.[4] At the age of 13 in October 1988 she won a Dillons young readers’ contest for an essay on Why I Like Books and was awarded £250 of book tokens. At the age of 15, she won The Observer‘s Young Reporter of the Year.[6] She began her career as a journalist forMelody Maker, the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.[7] Moran also wrote a novel called The Chronicles of Narmo at the age of 16, inspired by having been part of a home-schooled family.
In 1992, she launched her television career, hosting the Channel 4 music show Naked City,[8] which ran for two series and featured a number of then up-and-coming British bands such as Blur, Manic Street Preachers, and the Boo Radleys. Johnny Vaughan co-presented with her on Naked City.
Moran’s upbringing inspired her TV drama/comedy series, Raised By Wolves, which began airing in the UK on Channel 4 in December 2013.
In July 2012, Moran became a Fellow of the University of Aberystwyth.[9] In April 2014, she was named as one of Britain’s most influential women in the BBC Woman’s Hour power list 2014.[10]
In 2014, Moran released her semi-autobiographical novel, How To Build a Girl, set in Wolverhampton in the early 1990s. It is the first of a planned trilogy, to be followed by How To Be Famous, and concluding with How To Change The World.[11]
