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

Non-fiction

References

  1. "Mail on Sunday appoints Fleet Street's first female sports editor", The Guardian, 20 March 2013
  2. Wogan, Terry (6 February 2010). "What a week to be a WAG!". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  3. Celebrity Bride at Fantastic Fiction
  4. Mother & Son at Fantastic Fiction
  5. 1 2 "Telegraph Media Group announces more cross-platform jobs". Press Gazette. 1 May 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2010.
  6. Kervin, Alison (October 2007). The WAG's Diary. Avon. ISBN 978-1-84756-054-4.
  7. Kervin, Alison (July 2008). A WAG Abroad. Avon. ISBN 978-1-84756-055-1.
  8. Kervin, Alison (June 2009). Celebrity Bride. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-193211-4.
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