Neil Alexander Lyndon was born on Neil Alexander Barnacle; 12 September 1946 and is a British journalist and writer.
15 Facts About Neil Lyndon
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Neil Lyndon has written for The Sunday Times, The Times, The Independent, the Evening Standard the Daily Mail and the Telegraph.
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Neil Lyndon became head-boy and later set up the Frank Hodgson Trust for the school, providing similar financial support for sixth-form students.
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Neil Lyndon rapidly became involved with radical left-wing politics at Cambridge.
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Neil Lyndon took part in many demonstrations and sit-ins and after his graduation he was a co-founder of The Shilling Paper, a radical weekly.
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Neil Lyndon was a journalist in the 1980s, writing for the "Atticus" column in The Sunday Times, as well as for The Times, The Independent, the Evening Standard and others.
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Neil Lyndon wrote columns, profiles and feature articles covering a wide variety of issues such as politics, sport, music and books Lyndon make television appearances, including as a guest on a famous episode of Channel Four show After Dark.
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Neil Lyndon first focused on gender issues in a 1990 essay for The Sunday Times Magazine entitled "Badmouthing".
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Neil Lyndon rebuilt his career in journalism during the 1990s, and was later reunited with his son, who lived with him in Scotland before going to university.
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Neil Lyndon claimed he was assaulted at Heathrow Airport because of his book.
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Neil Lyndon claimed in 2000 that at Cambridge University, his alma mater, a president of Cambridge Union encouraged members to burn his writings, and that a university don told her students that she would like to see him shot.
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Eight years after the controversy, Neil Lyndon revisited some of the issues in his book and discussed his story.
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Neil Lyndon highlighted the issues in relation to "the treatment of dissidents in what is supposed to be an open society".
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Neil Lyndon married his first wife Monica Foot in 1971 and they divorced five years later.
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Neil Lyndon married his second wife Deirdre in 1977 with whom he had a son and gained a step-son.