Adrianne Blue is the author of six books published in 18 languages. A writer and broadcaster, and former head of the print strand of the MA in international journalism at London’s City University, her main subjects are contemporary life and literature, and sport. Her books have been published in 18 languages.
Former Sunday Times correspondent, now a senior honorary fellow at City University, Adrianne appears on radio and television in Britain and abroad, and her work is published internationally.
Her often controversial profiles, features, columns and reviews on life and literature are published in the Washington Post and the Guardian, the Mirror and the Express, the India Times and the Sydney Herald, Cosmopolitan and Ms Magazine, Time Out and Vogue, The Times and the New Statesman, where her work has included The Diary, sports columns and pieces on literary subjects.
She is a dual British and American citizen, has won two prizes for fiction, has an MA from Stanford and recently attained a PhD at City University (London).
Before the invasion of Afghanistan, she joined John Pilger and Philip Knightley in authoring a letter to the Guardian.
Adrianne was the motorcycle racing correspondent at the Sunday Times, and has covered many major championships including Wimbledon. She was the first female sports correspondent to conduct an interview in the men’s changing room at Lords. She had gone there to interview the England cricket captain.
A Browning scholar who has done original work on the lives of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she was a research fellow the Armstrong Browning Library in Texas, and has presented scholarly papers in England and Italy. In 2005, she chaired a panel at a conference of the world’s top Browning scholars in the historic monastery in Vallombrosa, Italy. She wrote a popular version of some of her research for The Times.
Prior to moving to the Sunday Times, she was the deputy sports editor and literary editor at Time Out.
