Edward Pearce (journalist)
| Edward Pearce | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 March 1939 Wenlock, Shropshire, England |
| Alma mater | St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Edward Pearce (born 28 March 1939) is an English political journalist and writer, notable for being the leader writer for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian, and writing a number of biographies of political figures. He is also known for writing a highly controversial article in the wake of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.
Edward Pearce was born in Wenlock, Shropshire, in 1939, the son of Frank Pearce, a schoolmaster, and Harriet Johnson. He was brought up in Darlington, County Durham, attending Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and then studied at St Peter's College, Oxford. He has been married to Deanna (née Singer) since 1966, and has one child, Cecily (b. 1975), a musician and teacher. He now lives in Easingwold, near York.
Embarking on a career in journalism, in 1977 he became a leader writer for the Daily Express. In 1979 he moved to The Daily Telegraph, where he wrote leaders and sketches on the Commons. In the 1980s Pearce contributed to Encounter; he claims the editors reassigned him from political writing to theatre criticism after he repeatedly used his Encounter column to criticise the Thatcher government. Pearce was strongly critical of the Soviet Union and welcomed its collapse, stating that under Stalin's rule the Soviet Union was "a mechanism for killing people distinguished from the Hitlerzeit only by motive". From 1987 to 1990 he was a columnist for The Sunday Times. Finally he became a columnist for The Guardian and sketch writer for the New Statesman until 1995. At this period he also wrote frequently for the Yorkshire Post, and was a panellist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. In later years he increasingly turned to the writing of biographical and historical studies of political figures.
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