Description
Book SynopsisAnne Karpf is a writer, medical sociologist and award-winning journalist. She has been a contributing editor to
Cosmopolitan, and wrote a weekly column for the family pages of the
Guardian, to which she now contributes columns on social, political and cultural issues. She also writes for the
Independent on Sunday and other publications. A regular broadcaster, she writes and presents for BBC Radio 4, and is the author of three books, including
The Human Voice (Bloomsbury, 2007). She is Reader in Writing and Cultural Inquiry at London Metropolitan University. Anne Karpf won the 2014 Older People in the Media award for best individual voice for
How to Age and her
Guardian journalism on older people's issues.
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