Ian Jack
Ian Jack’s journalism career has taken him from a weekly newspaper in Scotland in the 1960s to editor of Granta magazine and regular Guardian contributor. His latest book, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain (2009) – a selection from over 20 years of reporting and writing – looks at contemporary Britain, from national disasters to football matches, obesity to ‘chavs’ and asks the question of what came before.
Ian Jack worked at the Sunday Times for 16 years as a reporter, editor, feature writer and foreign correspondent. He was a co-founder of the Independent on Sunday and edited the paper until 1995 before becoming editor of Granta until 2007. He now writes regularly for the Guardian. He’s the author of two books of non-fiction. Before the Oil Ran Out: Britain 1977-86 (1987) and The Crash That Stopped Britain (2001).
“Ian Jack’s superbly evocative essays are the ideal advertisement for the virtues of print journalism.”
The Observer
“For a perceptive perspective on the Britain that we’re leaving ever further behind, Jack’s journalism is hard to beat.”
The Scotsman
Links:
- Read Ian Jack’s column in The Guardian
- Review of Ian Jack’s The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain in The Observer
- Ian Jack’s The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain reviewed in The Scotsman
