Cristina Odone

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Cristina Odone
Born
Cristina Patricia Odone

(1960-11-11) 11 November 1960 (age 63)
Lorenzo Odone (half-brother)
Websitehttp://www.cristinaodone.com

Cristina Patricia Odone (born 11 November 1960)

The Catholic Herald, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman.[2]
She is currently Head of the Family Policy Unit at the Centre for Social Justice.

Early life

Odone was born in

Lorenzo Odone, after whom Lorenzo's oil is named.[4][5]

Odone's father was a

St Clare's, a boarding school in Oxford.[7] Odone studied French literature and history at Worcester College, Oxford.[2][7]

Journalist

Odone edited The Catholic Herald from 1991 to 1995.[2][8] Odone later worked for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., as an advisor to European companies.[7] She resigned from The Catholic Herald to be able to finish her second novel, A Perfect Wife.[9] In 1996, Odone became the television critic for The Daily Telegraph, a position she held for two years.[2][10]

In 1998, Odone became deputy editor of the New Statesman.[11] Odone resigned in November 2004.[12] For six years Odone was a weekly columnist for The Observer.[8] In 2005, Odone wrote and presented a Channel 4 documentary directed by David Malone called Dispatches: Women Bishops.[13]

Following a dispute with

sockpuppet accounts to make edits attacking Odone and his critics.[15]

A frequent contributor to radio and television debates, Odone is presently a columnist for The Daily Telegraph.[16]

Published works

Odone has written four novels: The Shrine (1996),[17] A Perfect Wife (1997),[18] The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew (2008)[19] and The Good Divorce Guide (2009)[20] She contributed to Why I am still a Catholic (2005).[21]

Personal life

Odone is married to Edward Lucas,[2] a writer for The Economist magazine.[22] The couple have one child; Lucas has two children from a previous marriage.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Odone, Cristina (5 November 2006). "What a tangled web we are weaving". The Observer. London.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Cristina Odone". Curtis Brown. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  3. ^ Odone, Cristina (26 March 2006). "How well they knew us, those old masters". The Observer. London.
  4. ^ Odone, Cristina (17 July 2005). "'Lorenzo's oil, which my father and stepmother invented, was vindicated'". London: The Observer.
  5. ^ Odone, Cristina (4 June 2008). "Obituary: Lorenzo Odone". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  6. ^ a b Cristina Odone (31 October 2009). "The stepmothers' survival guide". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
  7. ^ a b c Hebblethwaite, Peter (26 February 1993). "Lorenzo's sister edits Catholic paper". National Catholic Reporter.
  8. ^ a b "Cristina Odone". Centre for Policy Studies. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  9. ^ Brown, Andrew (18 August 1996). "After the apocalypse, enter Ms Jones". The Independent.
  10. ^ Cripps, Charlotte (12 November 2002). "Media: My greatest mistake: 32 – Cristina Odone, Deputy Editor of the New Statesman". The Independent. Archived from the original on 21 October 2010.
  11. ^ Rowan, David (3 November 2004). "Interview: Cristina Odone, New Statesman (Evening Standard)". David Rowan. Archived from the original on 14 May 2006.
  12. ^ Rowan, David (11 April 2004). "New Left is up to its old tricks". The Scotsman. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
  13. ^ Description of Dispatches programme
  14. ^ Odone, Cristina (11 July 2011). "I fell out with Johann Hari – then 'David Rose' started tampering viciously with my Wikipedia entry". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  15. ^ Green, David Allan (15 September 2011). "The tale of Mr Hari and Dr Rose". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  16. ^ "Cristina Odone". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  17. ISBN 0-297-81661-6
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  18. ISBN 0-297-81811-2
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  19. ISBN 0-00-726365-1
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  20. ISBN 0-00-728973-1
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  21. ISBN 0-8264-8577-4
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  22. ^ Odone, Cristina (21 January 2009). "How to meet and marry a man after 40". The Daily Telegraph. London.

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