Quentin Letts

Quentin Letts
Quentin Letts in 2009
Born	(1963-02-06) 6 February 1963 (age 54) Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Haileybury and Imperial Service College Bellarmine University Trinity College, Dublin Jesus College, Cambridge
Occupation	Journalist, theatre critic

Quentin Richard Stephen Letts (born 6 February 1963) is an English journalist and theatre critic, writing for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Oldie and New Statesman, and previously for The Times.

The son of Richard Letts and his wife Jocelyn Elizabeth (née Adami), he was born and raised in Cirencester and for a while attended Oakley Hall Preparatory School, which was run by his father. He went on to board at The Elms in Colwall on the Herefordshire side of the Malvern Hills. His education continued at Haileybury and Imperial Service College, then at Bellarmine College, Kentucky (now Bellarmine University), before going to Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited a number of publications including The Piranha, Trinity's satirical newspaper. He graduated with an MA degree in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. At Jesus College, Cambridge he gained a Diploma in Classical Archaeology.

Since 1987, Letts has written for a number of British newspapers. His first post was with the Peterborough gossip column for the Daily Telegraph. For a time in the mid-1990s he was New York correspondent for The Times. He was the person behind the Daily Mail's Clement Crabbe column for a period, and has been the paper's theatre critic since 2004, and is also a political sketchwriter. He lists his hobbies in Who's Who as "gossip" and "character defenestration".