Alison Kervin
Alison Kervin is the Sports Editor of the Mail on Sunday newspaper. She is the first female in the UK to become sports editor of a major national newspaper.[1]
Fiction writing
Kervin has written a series of light-hearted novels centred on footballers' wives and girlfriends (known as WAGs): The WAG's Diary,[2] A WAG Abroad and WAGs at the World Cup; followed by the tongue-in-cheek WAGs' Guide to Euro 2012. Her fourth novel, Celebrity Bride, a romantic comedy, was published in June 2009.[3] Mother & Son, about the relationship between a single mother, her son, and the boy's father, was published in 2014.[4]
Sports writing
Kervin is now Sports Editor of The Mail on Sunday, she was formerly the Chief Sports Feature Writer of The Times newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview – The Kervin Interview – for three years, then she became Chief Sports Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph before going freelance. Recently she has worked as a consultant to Harper Collins Publishers, media trainer for UK Sport, and she was consultant editor on the Official Olympic Souvenir programme.
Kervin has written seven sport-related books including Denise Lewis: Personal Best, Jason Leonard: The Autobiography,[5] Sports Writing, The Unofficial Guide to the Rugby World Cup and Clive Woodward: The Biography,[5] the autobiography of Phil Vickery and Thirty Bullies.
Bibliography
Fiction
- The WAG's Diary (2007) [6]
- A WAG Abroad (2008)[7] – also published as WAGs Abroad and A WAG in L. A.
- WAGs at the World Cup (2010)
- WAGs' Guide to Euro 2012 (2012)
- Celebrity Bride (2009)[8] – also published as Hollywood Bride
- Mother & Son (2014) – also published as Don't Take My Son
Non-fiction
- Sports Writing (August 1997)
- Rugby World Cup 1999 (August 1999)
- Denise Lewis: Personal Best (December 2001) – with Denise Lewis
- Jason Leonard: The Autobiography (November 2001) – also published as Jason Leonard: Full Time (April 2004) – with Jason Leonard
- Clive Woodward: The Biography (October 2005)
- Thirty Bullies: A History of the Rugby World Cup (September 2007)
- Raging Bull: My Autobiography (2010) – with Phil Vickery
References
- ↑ "Mail on Sunday appoints Fleet Street's first female sports editor", The Guardian, 20 March 2013
- ↑ Wogan, Terry (6 February 2010). "What a week to be a WAG!". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ↑ Celebrity Bride at Fantastic Fiction
- ↑ Mother & Son at Fantastic Fiction
- 1 2 "Telegraph Media Group announces more cross-platform jobs". Press Gazette. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
- ↑ Kervin, Alison (October 2007). The WAG's Diary. Avon. ISBN 978-1-84756-054-4.
- ↑ Kervin, Alison (July 2008). A WAG Abroad. Avon. ISBN 978-1-84756-055-1.
- ↑ Kervin, Alison (June 2009). Celebrity Bride. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-193211-4.