1. Tim Lott was born on 23 January 1956 and is a British author.
10 Facts About Tim Lott
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Tim Lott worked as a music journalist and ran a magazine publishing business, launching Flexipop magazine in 1980 with ex-Record Mirror journalist Barry Cain.
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Tim Lott graduated with a degree in history and politics from the London School of Economics in 1986, at the age of 30.
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Tim Lott was a TV producer and a Sunday magazine featured writer.
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Tim Lott was shortlisted in the Best Novel category of the 2002 Whitbread Awards and the Encore Awards for best second novel for his work Rumours of a Hurricane.
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Tim Lott has since published The Love Secrets of Don Juan, The Seymour Tapes and Fearless, a young adult novel for Walker Books, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize.
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Tim Lott has featured prominently in the literary magazine Granta, appearing in its 21st anniversary edition as having authored one of the most significant pieces published in the previous 21 years.
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Tim Lott's authored documentary on the class system, The New Middle Classes, was broadcast on BBC Four in 2008.
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Tim Lott is a prolific travel journalist, and an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday.
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Tim Lott teaches the Writing a Novel six-month course at the Faber Academy in London.