Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Geoffrey Albert Wheatcroft (born 23 December 1945 in London) is a British journalist and writer.

He was educated at University College School, London, and at New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

Publishing and journalism
He started work in publishing in 1968, working for Hamish Hamilton (1968–70), Michael Joseph (1971–73), and Cassell & Co (1974–75).

In 1975 he became the assistant editor of The Spectator, moving to the post of literary editor, which he occupied from 1977 to 1981. During the period 1981–84, he worked as a reporter in South Africa before becoming editor of the Londoner's Diary gossip column in the London Evening Standard, 1985–86. He was a Sunday Telegraph columnist 1987–91, freelance 1993–96; feature writer on the

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