Background
Groskop was born in Hampshire and, with her younger sister Trudy, was raised in Bruton, Somerset.
Groskop was born in Hampshire and, with her younger sister Trudy, was raised in Bruton, Somerset.
She has written for publications including The Guardian, Evening Standard, The Observer, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Red magazine. She writes on arts, books, popular culture and current affairs, often with a feminist slant. According to her website she is a stand-up comedian, Military Cross and improviser who was a finalist in Funny Women 2012 and semi-finalist in So You Think You"re Funny 2012.
According to biographical information distributed when Groskop was on the panel of Any Questions on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, she discovered at this time that she has Russian ancestry.
She has an Master of Arts with distinction in Russian Studies from University College London SSEES. She began her career in journalism at Esquire as an editorial assistant for Rosie Boycott at the age of 22. Groskop joined the Daily Express while Boycott was editor, becoming a columnist on the Sunday Express at the age of 25.
She has been described as one of the most successful freelance journalists in the United Kingdom, and has twice been short-listed for the Periodical Publishers Association Columnist of the Year. Groskop is a contributing editor at Russian Vogue.
She also interviews in French, including the surviving daughter of Suite Francaise author Irène Némirovsky.
Groskop appears occasionally on Sky News, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Today programme, Any Questions, Front Row and Woman"s Hour, and on Nick Ferrari"s LBC 97.3 programme. She blogs about Downton Abbey for The Guardian. Her first book, I laughed, I cried, is an account of Groskop performing one hundred comedy gigs in one hundred nights.
lieutenant is described as "an experiment in doing what you want, even if it is terrifying, without giving up the day job".
lieutenant was published by Orion on 27 June 2013. Groskop is the Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival, the first season under her charge being held in February 2014.