Liz Hodgkinson
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| Born | 1945 St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Huntingdon Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Durham University |
| Period | 1966–present |
| Genre | Health, Lifestyle, Biography, Property |
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Liz Hodgkinson is an author and journalist who has written more than 50 books. Her books have been translated into over 20 languages. She has also written articles for most of the major British national newspapers in London, and for magazines for women. She has taught journalism for a decade.
Hodgkinson was born Elizabeth Garrett, and grew up, in the small Cambridgeshire town of St Neots.
She attended Huntingdon Grammar School, which was co-educational and which is now named Hinchingbrooke School. At the school she became a close friend of Amaryllis Garnett and was influenced by the bohemian household of David and Angelica Garnett, later describing it as "a magic garden". She has written that her parents would have been happy enough for her to leave school at 16 and train as a secretary. "They had no idea of higher education or careers." However, she wanted more from a career, so she attended Durham University where she studied English. Hodgkinson has written that her period at university was dominated by an obsession she developed for a male student, which began at first sight and was to overshadow her subsequent relationships.
After a short stint teaching, Hodgkinson became a freelance reporter/columnist. At first, in the years 1966–1970, she worked in Newcastle upon Tyne in north-east England, on the Thomson Newspapers the Evening Chronicle, the Newcastle Journal, and the Sunday Sun.
During these years she married Neville Hodgkinson, also a journalist, who would also become a Daily Mail science and medical columnist and author of books. She gave birth to their two sons Tom and Will, both of whom grew up to be journalists and authors like their parents.
Then the family moved to London, to a house in Richmond, and (like her husband) Hodgkinson got a series of jobs in Fleet Street. In 1971–1972, Hodgkinson was Deputy Editor of the mother and baby magazine Modern Mother (long since defunct), and then in 1972-3 she worked as a columnist on the London Evening News. She then worked on four national newspapers: the Sunday People, the Sun, the Daily Mail, and the Times, where she was Women's Editor for a time during 1986. After that, in 1986 she became a freelance journalist, writing for the Times, The Guardian, The Independent, the London Evening Standard, and again for the Daily Mail.
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