Toby Young (born Toby Daniel Moorsom Young in 1963) is a homuncular high-flying British journalist, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his disastrous five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Conde Nast Publications' Vanity Fair magazine. His style of obnoxious wit has earned him almost as many enemies as admirers and the title of "England's heterosexual Truman Capote." 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... ... Condé Nast Publications Inc. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ...

Young's father was Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, a Labour peer and pioneering sociologist who invented the term "meritocracy." His mother was the novelist, sculptor and painter Sasha Moorsom. He was educated at Oxford (winning a first in PPE at Brasenose), Harvard and Cambridge universities. At Oxford he started a magazine named The Danube, discovering his interest in journalism. After university he joined The Times but was sacked after six months. He then left for Harvard as a Fulbright scholar, encountering Graydon Carter's satirical Spy magazine there. Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington (August 9, 1915, Manchester - January 14, 2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme used to distinguish between the achievements of undergraduate degree holders (such as those gaining bachelors degrees or undergraduate masters degrees) in the United Kingdom. ... College name Brasenose College Named after Bronze door knocker Established 1509 Sister College Gonville and Caius College Principal Prof. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... REDIRECT [1] ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom. ... The Fulbright Program is program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships) sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. ... Edward Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair. ...

Returning to London, Young founded and edited The Modern Review with Julie Burchill, with its motto "low culture for highbrows". It caused a sensation in the publishing and celebrity worlds. In 1995, with the magazine close to financial ruin, Young decided to close The Modern Review. The decision led to a fierce public battle with Burchill and her lover, Charlotte Raven, a writer at the magazine, who accused him of being a spoiled child and compared him to Hitler. Modern Review was a London-based magazine reviewing popular arts and culture, founded by Julie Burchill and Toby Young. ... Julie Burchill (born July 3, 1959 in Frenchay, a suburb of Bristol) is a British journalist noted for her acerbic writing. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charlotte Raven (born 1969) is a British writer and journalist. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...

Young moved to New York shortly afterwards to work for Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair. His book outlines his doomed struggle to get noticed amid the self-absorbed world of the city's style elite and his many faux-pas at the expense of the rich, famous, gay, Jewish and powerful. He has been likened to a "small bald peanut with negative charisma" and a "peeled quail's egg dipped in celery salt"(Private Eye). State nickname: The Empire State Official languages English Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Clinton (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 27th 141,205 km² 13. ... Private eye may mean: Look up Private eye on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Private Eye a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop (as of 2005) A private investigator, a private detective for hire (see also crime fiction and detective fiction) Private Eye, a song by Alkaline Trio...

Back in London now, Young is theatre critic at The Spectator, also writes for Tatler and is a columnist and broadcaster. He has performed in the West End in a stage adaptation of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and cowritten (with fellow Spectator writer Lloyd Evans) a satirical musical/sex farce, about the David Blunkett/Kimberley Fortier scandal and the 'Sextator' affairs of Boris Johnson and Rod Liddle, called Who's the Daddy? The Spectator is a conservative British political magazine, established 1828, published weekly. ... Tatler is a British society magazine. ... West End is the name of some places in the world, including: The West End of London, England West End Theatre, is where many of Londons major theatres are located and premier cinema screenings take place. ... David Blunkett The Right Honourable David Blunkett (born June 6, 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. ... Kimberly Quinn (born 1961 as Kimberly Solomon, also known as Kimberly Fortier) is an American journalist, commentator, and magazine publisher. ... Boris Johnson on the cover of his 2002 book Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964 in New York City), better known as Boris Johnson (and occasionally as Bo-Jo within the UK tabloid press) is a British Conservative politician and journalist, with a distinctive scatty and eccentric... Rod Liddle (born 1960) is a British journalist best known for his term as editor of BBC Radio 4s Today programme. ...

He is married with two children and preparing his second volume of memoirs, The Sound of No Hands Clapping.

External links

• Personal website