Tim Dowling

Timothy Dowling
Dowling playing the banjo in the band Police Dog Hogan
Born	Timothy Dowling October 26, 1963 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality	American
Other names	Tim
Occupation	Journalist
Known for	Acting, Writing

Tim Dowling (born 1963, Boston,USA) is a journalist and author. Dowling moved to the UK at the age of 27 and currently lives in London with his wife and three children.

Dowling is a columnist for The Guardian and has a weekly column in the paper's Saturday magazine, Weekend. His books include Suspicious Packages and Extendable Arms, a collection of his writing from The Guardian, and The Giles Wareing Haters' Club, a novel concerning a journalist who searches for his name on Google and finds an online club of people who hate him. The book was inspired by Dowling's own experiences in searching for mentions of his name online. He is a member of the band Police Dog Hogan, and writes about their festival gigs in his column.