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Lawson, Nigella, 1960-

LC control no.n 96070313
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Personal name headingLawson, Nigella, 1960-
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Variant(s)Lawson, Nigella Lucy, 1960-
לוסון, נייג׳לה, 1960-
Associated countryGreat Britain
LocatedLondon (England)
Birth date1960-01-06
Place of birthLondon (England)
Field of activityCooking Cookbooks Television Journalism
AffiliationLady Margaret Hall (University of Oxford)
Profession or occupationCooks Authors Journalists
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Found inIl museo immaginario della pasta, c1995: t.p. (Nigella Lawson) jkt. (b. in London in 1960; freelance journalist for the Guardian)
Simply Nigella, 2015: title page (Nigella Lawson)
Wikipedia.org, accessed 11 January 2016: (Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. She is the daughter of Nigel Lawson, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Vanessa (née Salmon) Lawson, whose family owned the J. Lyons and Co. food and catering business. After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, Lawson started work as a book reviewer and restaurant critic, later becoming the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She then embarked upon a career as a freelance journalist, writing for a number of newspapers and magazines. In 1998, she brought out her first cookery book, How to eat, which sold 300,000 copies and became a best-seller. She wrote her second book in 2000, How to be a domestic goddess, which won her the British Book Award for Author of the Year. In 1999, she hosted her own cooking show series, Nigella bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook. Nigella bites. Lawson was born in Wandsworth, London. Residence: London, England.
National bib agency no.1008J9588E
Associated languageeng
Quality codenlc