Dolly Alderton is an award-winning British-Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer. She authored the memoir Everything I Know About Love (2018), the novel Ghosts (2020), and Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship (2022).
Dolly Alderton (née Hannah Alderton) was born in London and raised in Stanmore. She was born to British and Canadian parents. Alderton changed her name to Dolly in her early teens.
Dolly Alderton attended St Margaret's School in Bushey and Rugby School. She has a degree in Drama and English from the University of Exeter and an M.A. in journalism from City University.
Alderton has been a columnist for The Sunday Times Style since 2015. She began as a dating columnist and later became an agony aunt in her Dear Dolly column.
Alderton debuted with Everything I Know About Love in February 2018. Her memoir won a National Book Award for autobiography. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards and adapted into a BBC/Peacock eponymous television drama series.
Her first novel, Ghosts, was published in 2020. The story concerns a 32-year-old food writer, Nina, who meets someone through a dating app while her father is beginning to show signs of dementia. In October 2020, Alderton had sold the film rights to Ghosts.
In 2022, Alderton released a third book, Dear Dolly, a collection of her Sunday Times columns and a new personal essay.
Dolly Alderton lives in London. She is working on her new novel, Good Material, which will be out in November 2023.
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