Toby Young is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (2001) and The Sound of No Hands Clapping (2006).
In 1991, he founded and edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman. Toby moved to New York in 1995 to work for Vanity Fair, where he was a contributing editor from 1995-98. He is now an associate editor of the Spectator and a blogger for the Daily Telegraph. He has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and, in 2005, co-wrote a sex farce about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Quinn scandal called Who's the Daddy?. It was named Best New Comedy at the 2006 Theatregoers' Choice Awards. Toby co-produced the film version of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and more recently co-produced and co-wrote a dramadoc for More4 called When Boris Met Dave (2009).
His teaching experience includes working as teaching fellow at Harvard and a teaching assistant at Cambridge. Along with other parents, Toby is setting up the West London Free School, which aims to be renowned for academic excellence and ambition in all its students, no matter what their background.
In 1991, he founded and edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and Cosmo Landesman. Toby moved to New York in 1995 to work for Vanity Fair, where he was a contributing editor from 1995-98. He is now an associate editor of the Spectator and a blogger for the Daily Telegraph. He has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and, in 2005, co-wrote a sex farce about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Quinn scandal called Who's the Daddy?. It was named Best New Comedy at the 2006 Theatregoers' Choice Awards. Toby co-produced the film version of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) and more recently co-produced and co-wrote a dramadoc for More4 called When Boris Met Dave (2009).
His teaching experience includes working as teaching fellow at Harvard and a teaching assistant at Cambridge. Along with other parents, Toby is setting up the West London Free School, which aims to be renowned for academic excellence and ambition in all its students, no matter what their background.
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