Background
Born in Sheffield, the daughter of a university lecturer, Cooke attended Oxford University, before beginning her career as a reporter for The Sunday Times.
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Education
University of Oxford.
Career
She has written for the New Statesman, where she is television critic, and is a writer for The Observer newspaper. In 2006 she was named Interviewer of the Year at the British Press Awards and Feature Writer of the Year at the What the Papers Say Awards. In 2010 she was named Writer of the Year at the PPA Awards for her interviews in Esquire.
Since 2010, Cooke has been reviewing graphic novels for The Guardian"s "Graphic novel of the month".
Cooke"s first book, Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties, was published in autumn 2013. Cooke is married to the film critic, and novelist, Anthony Quinn.
