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Polly Devlin OBE (born 1944) is a writer and broadcaster from Northern Ireland.

Biography

She was born in Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, then a remote area without telephones or electricity. She left for London after winning the Vogue magazine Talent competition, working there as Features Editor.[1][2][3]

She also wrote a column for the New Statesman and she had her own page in the Evening Standard a year later. She moved to Manhattan in 1967 becoming a features editor and writer for Diana Vreeland[4] on American Vogue. She reviewed theatre and film and interviewed Barbra Streisand, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, John Osborne, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol among many others. When she moved back to England, she attended the National Film School for four years and directed a one-hour documentary The Daisy Chain. She also wrote for The Observer, The Sunday Times, Vogue, and many other newspapers and magazines.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

She has been a Booker Prize judge (1984),[5] Irish Times Literary Award judge (1994), Pushkin Prize judge (1998) and was awarded the OBE for Services to Literature in the 1992 Birthday Honours.

She currently writes a column for The Big Issue[6] and is Adjunct Professor at Barnard College[7] Columbia University, New York teaching creative non-fiction. She is also Northern Ireland panel member on BBC Radio 4 Round Britain Quiz[8]

She has five sisters and one brother, Barry Devlin who is bass player and vocalist in the Irish Celtic rock band Horslips. Her sister Marie[9] is an editor and writer (Over Nine Waves, a collection of Irish myths and legends) who married the Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney.[10][11] In 1967 Polly married Andy Garnett[12] an industrialist, philanthropist and writer of books including Steel Wheels, A Social History of Railways[13] and Lucky Dog,[14] a memoir. Together they had three daughters Rose Garnett,[15] Head of Development at Film 4,[16] Daisy Garnett[17] writer and journalist and Bay Garnett fashion stylist, author and editor.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

Books

  • All of us There[18][19] a social history. Many re-prints. Latest Virago Modern Classics
  • The Far side of the Lough[20] Short stories. Re-published O'Brien Press 1999
  • Vogue Book of Fashion Photography.[21] Thames and Hudson. 1979
  • Dora or the Shifts of the Heart[22][23] a novel pub 1993 Chatto and Windus. Serialised for 13 weeks on Radio 4
  • Dublin a Guide Book[24] 1996
  • Only Sometimes Looking Sideways[25][26] A Book of Essays. O'Brien Press 1998
  • A Year in the Life of an English Meadow[27][28] Frances Lincoln 2007
  • A Guide to Ceramics for the National Gallery Ireland

New York: Places to Write Home About Pimpernel Press 2017

New York:Behind Closed Doors: Gibbs-Smith. USA 2017

  • Film: The Daisy Chain[29] A documentary film: director and writer.
  • Radio Play: The Hiring Fair[30]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2014/02/24/beatrix-miller-obituary-british-vogue-editor-died-covers-archive|title=Vogue Editor Beatrix Miller Remembered|date=24 February 2014|work=Vogue UK}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/issue/1964/August/Page/2/|title=Vogue Magazine Cover Archive: In This Issue|date=August 1964|work=Vogue UK}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/issue/1964/December/Page/2|title=Vogue Magazine Cover Archive: In This Issue|date=December 1964|work=Vogue UK}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5682107/|title=Polly Devlin|work=IMDb}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.themanbookerprize.com/whos-who|title=Who's Who – The Man Booker Prizes|work=themanbookerprize.com}}
6. ^{{cite news |url=http://www.bigissue.com/authors/polly-devlin |title=Polly Devlin |work=Big Issue}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://english.barnard.edu/polly-devlin|title=Polly Devlin|work=barnard.edu}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qxpr|title=BBC Radio 4 – Round Britain Quiz|work=BBC}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.faber.co.uk/author/marie-heaney/|title=Marie Heaney|work=faber.co.uk}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/14/seamus-heaney-obituary-polly-devlin|title=Seamus Heaney remembered by Polly Devlin|work=the Guardian}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/seamus-heaney-s-poetic-legacy-recalled-by-friends-and-admirers-in-washington-1.1599197|title=Seamus Heaney's poetic legacy recalled by friends and admirers in Washington|work=Irish Times}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andy-garnett-leading-figure-of-the-1950s-london-set-who-later-helped-develop-one-of-britains-most-innovative-engineering-firms-9634121.html|title=Andy Garnett: Leading figure of the 1950s London set who later helped develop one of Britain's most innovative engineering firms|work=The Independent}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/10/world.comment|title=Simon Jenkins: Thrill to the steam engine, the most radical machine ever built|author=Simon Jenkins|work=the Guardian}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://store.blurb.com/ebooks/355259-memories-of-a-lucky-dog|title=Memories of a Lucky Dog|author=Andy Garnett|work=blurb.com}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3312218/|title=Rose Garnett|work=IMDb}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/film4-announces-rose-garnett-as-new-head-of-development|title=Film4 announces Rose Garnett as new Head of Development – Channel 4 – Info – Press|work=channel4.com}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.sophiedahl.com/author/daisygarnett/|title=Daisy Garnett – At The Kitchen Table|work=sophiedahl.com}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.troublesarchive.com/artforms/literature/piece/all-of-us-there|title=All of us there – Troubles Archive|work=troublesarchive.com}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/All-There-Virago-Modern-Classics/dp/1844080447|title=All of Us There (Virago Modern Classics): Polly Devlin: 9781844080441: Amazon.com: Books|work=amazon.com}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Far-Side-Lough-Childhood/dp/0416518206|title=The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood: Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9780416518207: Books|work=amazon.co.uk}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246803.Vogue_Book_of_Fashion_Photography_1919_1979|title=Vogue Book of Fashion Photography 1919–1979|author=Polly Devlin|work=Goodreads}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.troublesarchive.com/artists/polly-devlin|title=Polly devlin – Troubles Archive|work=troublesarchive.com}}
23. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5CIqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Polly+Devlin%22&dq=%22Polly+Devlin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MHEAVfOYKcasU4jzgMAB&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA|title=Dora, or, The shifts of the heart|work=google.co.uk}}
24. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dublin-American-Express-Travel-Guides/dp/1857329678|title=Dublin (American Express Travel Guides): Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9781857329674: Books|work=amazon.co.uk}}
25. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sometimes-Looking-Sideways-Polly-Devlin/dp/0862785642|title=Only Sometimes Looking Sideways: Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9780862785642: Books|work=amazon.co.uk}}
26. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b-zrAAAACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Polly+Devlin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=d3EAVancCIatU-fGg4AF&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA|title=Only Sometimes Looking Sideways|work=google.co.uk}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2007/dec/23/featuresreview.review3|title=A book of Soviet bus stops? It's just what I've always wanted|work=the Guardian}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/04/2007_26_fri.shtml|title=BBC – Radio 4 Woman's Hour -English Meadows|author=BBC|work=bbc.co.uk}}
29. ^{{cite web|url=http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2008marchapril/devlin.html|title=The Daisy Chain by Polly Devlin|work=Harvard Film Archive}}
30. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k1k4|title=BBC Radio 4 Extra – The Lunar Effect, The Hiring Fair|work=BBC}}

External links

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  • [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jul/06/women.fashion4 Article]
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