Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke (born 1969-70) is a British journalist and writer.

Born in Sheffield, the daughter of a university lecturer, Cooke attended Oxford University, before beginning her career as a reporter for The Sunday Times. She has written for the New Statesman, where she is television critic, and is a writer for The Observer newspaper. In 2006 she was named Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards and Feature Writer of the Year at the What the Papers Say Awards. In 2010 she was named Writer of the Year at the PPA Awards for her interviews in Esquire. In the 'Lost Booker Prize' for 1970, announced in March 2010, Cooke was one of the three judges. Since 2010, Cooke has been reviewing graphic novels for The Guardian's "Graphic novel of the month".

Cooke's first book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties, was published in autumn 2013.

Cooke is married to the film critic, and novelist, Anthony Quinn.

External links

• Rachel Cooke's contributor page, Guardian/Observer website
• Contributor page, New Statesman

• Rachel Cooke "The Lost Booker: a judge tells all", The Observer, 28 March 2010
• "Cooke, Rachel", Rogers, Coleridge & White Literary Agents
• Rachel Cooke "What it means to be northern when you're Down South", New Statesman, 5 December 2013
• Rachel Cooke "A conspiracy of silence allowed sexual harassment to stay routine", The Observer, 28 October 2012
• "Guardian is newspaper of the year", Press Gazette, 20 March 2006
• "Top Award for Observer Writer", The Observer, 17 December 2006
• "Authors vie for 'lost' 1970 Booker Prize", BBC News, 1 February 2010
• Yvette Huddleston "Turning the Fifties myth on its head", Yorkshire Post, 7 February 2014
• Peter Stanford "Anthony Quinn: 'I can never go home again'", The Independent, 4 January 2009