Lucy Mangan
Lucy Mangan is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for The Guardian and an opinion writer for The i Paper.
Early life and education
Mangan was born in 1974 and 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.
Career
Journalism
Mangan writes a regular column, TV reviews, and occasional features at The Guardian, and is an opinion writer for The i Paper. A major part of her writing is related to feminism.The Guardian has given only 15 zero-star reviews, two of them by Mangan. In 2021 Mangan gave a zero-star review to the film Sex, Unzipped, remarking that the film "is a TV disgrace". In 2025 Mangan gave a zero-star review to television series All's Fair, describing the show as "Fascinatingly, incomprehensibly, existentially terrible".
Mangan also has a regular column for Stylist magazine.
Books
Mangan's book My Family and other Disasters 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