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Biography
Alex Renton (born 5 March 1961) is a British journalist and the author of Stiff Upper Lip, and Planet Carnivore.
Early life and family
Renton was born in Toronto, Canada, on 5 March 1961, the oldest child of the politician Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry and the novelist and historian Alice Blanche Helen Fergusson. He was educated at Ashdown House, East Sussex and Eton College.
Renton married Ruth Valerie Burnett in 2002. They have a son and daughter.
Career
As a journalist he has held staff jobs as a reporter and editor on British newspapers The Independent and the London Evening Standard. He has been a columnist for The Times and a Scotland-based correspondent for Newsweek magazine. He has won awards for foreign reporting, investigative journalism and food writing. He worked in Asia for Oxfam from 2001 to 2004.
Selected publications
- Stiff Upper Lip: secrets, crimes and the schooling of a ruling class
- Planet Carnivore