Polly Devlin OBE was born on 1944 and is a Northern Irish writer and broadcaster.
13 Facts About Polly Devlin
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Polly Devlin was born in Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, then a remote area without telephones or electricity.
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Polly Devlin left for London after winning the Vogue magazine Talent competition, working there as Features Editor.
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Polly Devlin wrote a column for the New Statesman and she had her own page in the Evening Standard a year later.
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Polly Devlin moved to Manhattan in 1967 becoming a features editor and writer for Diana Vreeland on American Vogue.
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Polly Devlin reviewed theatre and film and interviewed Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, John Osborne, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol among many others.
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Polly Devlin wrote for The Observer, The Sunday Times, Vogue, and many other newspapers and magazines.
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Polly Devlin has been a Booker Prize judge, Irish Times Literary Award judge, Pushkin Prize judge and was awarded the OBE for Services to Literature in the 1992 Birthday Honours.
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Polly Devlin currently writes a column for The Big Issue and is adjunct professor at Barnard College Columbia University, New York teaching creative non-fiction.
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Polly Devlin is Northern Ireland panel member on BBC Radio 4 Round Britain Quiz.
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Polly Devlin has five sisters and one brother, Barry Devlin who is bass player and vocalist in the Irish Celtic rock band Horslips.
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Polly Devlin's sister Marie is an editor and writer who married the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.
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In 1967 Polly married Andy Garnett an industrialist, philanthropist and writer of books including Steel Wheels, A Social History of Railways and Lucky Dog, a memoir.