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Nigella Lucy Lawson
B. 6 January 1960
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born 6 January 1960) is an English food writer, television cook, food critic, author, and television presenter.
She attended Godolphin and Latymer School, London. Having been rejected from Clare College, University of Cambridge , she then took a year out and applied to Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, 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, her first cookery book, How to Eat, was published and sold 300,000 copies, becoming a best-seller. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, was published in 2000, winning the British Book Award for Author of the Year. (Full article...)