Alan Coren was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff.
17 Facts About Alan Coren
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Alan Coren was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1938, the son of builder and plumber Samuel Coren and his wife Martha, a hairdresser.
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Alan Coren graduated from the University of Oxford with a first class Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960: as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree.
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Alan Coren considered an academic career but instead decided to become a writer and journalist.
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Alan Coren began this career by selling articles to Punch and was later offered a full-time job there.
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In 1963, Alan Coren married Anne Kasriel, a consultant at Moorfields Eye Hospital.
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Alan Coren remained as editor until 1987 when the circulation began to decline.
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From 1971 to 1978, Alan Coren wrote a television review column for The Times.
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Alan Coren wrote for The Observer, Tatler and The Times.
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From 1984, Alan Coren worked as a television critic for The Mail on Sunday until he moved as a humorous columnist to the Sunday Express, which he left in 1996.
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Alan Coren was invited to be one of the regular panellists on BBC Radio 4's new satirical quiz show, The News Quiz.
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Alan Coren continued on The News Quiz until the year he died.
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Alan Coren published about twenty books during his life, many of which were collections of his newspaper columns, such as Golfing for Cats and The Cricklewood Diet.
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In 1973, Alan Coren became the Rector of the University of St Andrews, after John Cleese.
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In May 2006, Alan Coren was bitten by an insect that gave him septicaemia, which led to his developing necrotising fasciitis.
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Alan Coren died from lung cancer in 2007 at his home in north London.
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Alan Coren's body was buried at Hampstead Cemetery in north London.