Polly Devlin Explained

Polly Devlin
Honorific Suffix:OBE
Birth Date:1944
Birth Place:Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Occupation:writer
Language:English
Nationality:Irish
Citizenship:Irish
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Relatives:Barry Devlin Bay Garnett. Marie Heaney. Seamus Heaney Rose Garnett Daisy Garnett Tom Craig Nicholas PearsonClaire Devlin. Helen Harvey. Val Devlin Tom Browne Tom Fisher

Polly Devlin OBE (born 1944) is a writer and Irish broadcaster.

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.

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.

Books

New York: Places to Write Home About Pimpernel Press 2017New York:Behind Closed Doors: Gibbs-Smith. USA 2017

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vogue Editor Beatrix Miller Remembered. 24 February 2014. Vogue UK.
  2. Web site: Vogue Magazine Cover Archive: In This Issue. August 1964. Vogue UK. 6 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160402202036/http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/issue/1964/August/Page/2. 2 April 2016. dead.
  3. Web site: Vogue Magazine Cover Archive: In This Issue. December 1964. Vogue UK. 6 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304202522/http://www.vogue.co.uk/magazine/archive/issue/1964/December/Page/2. 4 March 2016. dead.
  4. Web site: Polly Devlin. IMDb.
  5. Web site: Who's Who – The Man Booker Prizes. themanbookerprize.com.
  6. News: Polly Devlin . Big Issue.
  7. Web site: Polly Devlin. barnard.edu.
  8. Web site: BBC Radio 4 – Round Britain Quiz. BBC.
  9. Web site: Marie Heaney. faber.co.uk.
  10. Web site: Seamus Heaney remembered by Polly Devlin. the Guardian.
  11. Web site: Seamus Heaney's poetic legacy recalled by friends and admirers in Washington. Irish Times.
  12. Web site: Andy Garnett: Leading figure of the 1950s London set who later helped develop one of Britain's most innovative engineering firms. The Independent.
  13. Web site: Simon Jenkins: Thrill to the steam engine, the most radical machine ever built. Simon Jenkins. the Guardian.
  14. Web site: Memories of a Lucky Dog. Andy Garnett. blurb.com.
  15. Web site: Rose Garnett. IMDb.
  16. Web site: Film4 announces Rose Garnett as new Head of Development – Channel 4 – Info – Press. channel4.com.
  17. Web site: Daisy Garnett – At The Kitchen Table. sophiedahl.com.
  18. Web site: All of us there – Troubles Archive. troublesarchive.com.
  19. Book: All of Us There (Virago Modern Classics): Polly Devlin: 9781844080441: Amazon.com: Books. 1844080447.
  20. Book: The Far Side of the Lough: Stories from an Irish Childhood: Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9780416518207: Books. .
  21. Web site: Vogue Book of Fashion Photography 1919–1979. Polly Devlin. Goodreads.
  22. Web site: Polly devlin – Troubles Archive. troublesarchive.com.
  23. Web site: Dora, or, The shifts of the heart. google.co.uk.
  24. Book: Dublin (American Express Travel Guides): Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9781857329674: Books. .
  25. Book: Only Sometimes Looking Sideways: Amazon.co.uk: Polly Devlin: 9780862785642: Books. .
  26. Web site: Only Sometimes Looking Sideways. google.co.uk.
  27. Web site: A book of Soviet bus stops? It's just what I've always wanted. the Guardian.
  28. Web site: BBC – Radio 4 Woman's Hour -English Meadows. BBC. bbc.co.uk.
  29. Web site: The Daisy Chain by Polly Devlin. Harvard Film Archive.
  30. Web site: BBC Radio 4 Extra – The Lunar Effect, The Hiring Fair. BBC.

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