Toby Young
| Toby Young | |
|---|---|
| Born | Toby Daniel Moorsom Young 17 October 1963 Buckinghamshire, UK |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Brasenose College, Oxford |
| Notable works | How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001) |
Toby Young (born 17 October 1963) is a British journalist. Young is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his stint in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. He served as a judge in seasons five and six of the television show Top Chef and co-founded the West London Free School. He is an advocate of Classical Liberalism.
Born in Buckinghamshire, Young was brought up in Highgate, North London, and in South Devon. His mother Sasha Moorsom was a BBC Radio producer, artist and writer, and his father was Michael, Baron Young of Dartington, a Labour life peer and pioneering sociologist who coined the word "". Although entitled to use the style The Hon. Toby Young, he does not.
Young was educated at Creighton School (now Fortismere School), Muswell Hill and King Edward VI Community College, Totnes. He left school at 16 with one Grade C GCE O-Level in English Literature and did menial jobs under a Government Workfare programme. He then retook his O-Levels and went to the Sixth Form of William Ellis School, Highgate, leaving with two Bs and a C at A-Level and managing to obtain a place at Brasenose College, Oxford. Young claims he was sent an acceptance letter by mistake. He had been given a conditional offer of three Bs under a scheme to give access to comprehensive pupils.
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