Background
Lott was born in Southall, West London.
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Tim Lott
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After working as a music journalist and running a magazine publishing business, he graduated as a mature student, at the age of 30, from the London School of Economics in 1986 with a degree in History and Politics.
Career
He then briefly worked as the editor of the London magazine City Limits, as a television producer and a Sunday magazine feature writer lieutenant is now published as a Penguin Modern Classic. He was shortlisted in the "Best Novel" category of the 2002 Whitbread Awards and the Encore Awards for best second novel for his work, "Rumours of a Hurricane".
He has since published The Love Secrets of Don Juan, The Seymour Tapes and Fearless, a young adult novel for Walker Books, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children"s Fiction prize.
He has also featured prominently in the literary magazine "Granta", appearing in their 21st anniversary edition as having authored one of the most significant pieces published in the previous 21 years. His most recent novel (April 2012) is Under the Same Stars (Simon and Schuster).
His authored documentary on the class system, "The New Middle Classes" was broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Four in 2008. He is a prolific travel journalist, an occasional op-ed writer for the Independent on Sunday and a weekly columnist for the Guardian "Family" section.
He teaches the "Writing a Novel" six-month course at the Faber Academy in London.
Achievements
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His first book, a memoir, The Scent of Dried Roses, was published in 1996 and won the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. His next work, and first novel, White City Blue, was published in 1999 and won that year"s Whitbread Award for Best First Novel.
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