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Toby Young


Born
in Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom
October 17, 1963

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Genre
Nonfiction


Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963) is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his failed five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, as well as The Sound of No Hands Clapping, a follow-up about his failure to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. His obnoxious wit has earned him almost as many enemies as admirers and the title of "England's heterosexual Truman Capote". As the son of a baron, he is entitled to use the title the Honourable, but declines to style himself as such.

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How to Lose Friends and Ali...
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How To Set Up a Free School
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“Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.”
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“Unbefuckinglievable.”
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“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”
― Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
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