Zoe Abigail Williams was born on 7 August 1973 and is a Welsh columnist, journalist, and author.
18 Facts About Zoe Williams
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Zoe Abigail Williams was born on 7 August 1973 in Hounslow, West London, England.
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Zoe Williams's father, Mark Williams, was a psychologist, and her mother was a set designer for the BBC.
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Zoe Williams's parents separated in 1976 and divorced 20 years later.
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Zoe Williams has an older sister, Stacey, and half- and step-siblings from her father's marital and extramarital relationships.
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Zoe Williams said her father was a petty criminal because he committed insurance fraud.
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Zoe Williams's work has appeared in other publications, including the New Statesman, The Spectator, NOW Magazine, the London Cycling Campaign's magazine London Cyclist, and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Zoe Williams is a columnist for the London Evening Standard, for which she was a diarist writing about being a single woman in London.
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In May 2011, Zoe Williams wrote about fare dodging when in her 30s while travelling on London buses.
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In 2014, Zoe Williams defended the social policy legacy of former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and denounced those calling him a war criminal, and has strongly condemned the rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba.
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Zoe Williams writes about her personal life from a feminist perspective, such as her marriages, motherhood, and her abortion.
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Zoe Williams wrote Bring It On, Baby: How to have a dudelike pregnancy, a 2010 book of advice for mothers-to-be, which was republished in 2012 as What Not to Expect When You're Expecting.
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Zoe Williams was longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2012 and was named Columnist of the Year 2010 at the WorkWorld Media Awards.
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Zoe Williams has been a panellist on the BBC's Any Questions and Question Time.
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In February 2020, Zoe Williams was criticised online and in Nation.
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In 2020, Kent Live reported criticism of Zoe Williams following an altercation that resulted in Zoe Williams being told to leave a Wetherspoons pub in Ramsgate, on the basis that she had broken the COVID-19 lockdown rules then in force.
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Zoe Williams married the father, a geologist, of her son and daughter in 2013 after ten years together and wrote about the wedding from a feminist perspective in her column for The Guardian.
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In 2018, after divorce, Zoe Williams married for the second time.