Jay Rayner
| Jay Rayner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
14 September 1966 London, England |
| Residence | London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
| Alma mater | University of Leeds |
| Occupation | Broadcaster, writer, journalist, food critic |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Employer | BBC, Channel 4 and The Observer |
| Spouse(s) | Pat Gordon-Smith |
| Parent(s) | Desmond Rayner Claire Rayner (deceased) |
Jay Rayner (born 14 September 1966) is a British journalist, writer, broadcaster, food critic and jazz musician.
Rayner is the younger son of Desmond Rayner and journalist Claire Rayner. His family is Jewish. He was brought up in the Sudbury Hill area of Harrow and attended the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. He joined The Observer newspaper after graduating from the University of Leeds in 1988, where he was editor of the student newspaper. As of 2014[update] he was restaurant critic of The Observer. He has written for a wide range of British newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, the New Statesman and Granta. In 1992 he was named Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
His first novel The Marble Kiss, published in 1994, was shortlisted for the Author's Club First Novel Award and his second, Day of Atonement (1998) was shortlisted for the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His first non-fiction book, Stardust Falling, was published in 2002; this was followed by his third novel The Apologist, published in the US as Eating Crow, in 2004.
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