Alison Kervin is an award-winning journalist, biographer and novelist. She was short-listed for the 2004 and 2005 Interviewer Of The Year award for her work on The Times and the Sunday Times. She was also Woman of Achievement in Cosmopolitan magazine and won Feature Writer of the Year, Interviewer of the Year and Magazine Editor of the Year in the IPC magazine awards. She is currently a freelance writer and journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Radio Times and Hello. In the past, she has written short stories, columns and interviews for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman, Company, Woman's Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, Country :Life and Tatler.