Lucy Mangan

Lucy Katherine Mangan (born 1974) is a British journalist and author.

She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for The Guardian and an opinion writer for i news.

A major part of her writing is related to feminism.

Mangan grew up in Catford, southeast London, to parents originally from Lancashire.

Her father worked in theatre, and her mother was a doctor.

She studied English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor, but worked in a bookshop until she found a work experience placement at The Guardian in 2003.

Mangan writes a regular column, TV reviews and occasional features at The Guardian.

Her book My Family and other Disasters (2009) is a collection of her newspaper columns.

She has also written books about her childhood and her wedding.

Her debut novel, Are We Having Fun Yet?, was published in 2021.

The Scotsman 's Kirsty McLuckie gave the novel a glowing review, describing the book as "a work of genius".

Mangan also has a regular column for Stylist magazine and has been a judge for the BookTrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize.

She won the columnist of the year award at the Professional Publishers Association Awards in 2013 and was shortlisted for the critic of the year award at The British Press Awards in 2019.

Mangan and her husband have one son.