Marianne Macdonald read English at New College, Oxford, where she was named Guardian/NUS Student Journalist of the Year. She was the Independent's first trainee and went on to become an interviewer on the Observer's Life magazine. She was runner up for Interviewer of the Year in 1997 and has interviewed Hunter S. Thompson, Sean Penn, Gorbachev, Leonardo DiCaprio and Billy Bob Thornton, among others. She lives in West London.
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