Tim Dowling

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Dowling playing the banjo in the band Police Dog Hogan
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Robert Timothy Dowling (/ˈdaʊlɪŋ/; born June 1963) is an American journalist and author who writes a weekly column in The Guardian about his life with his family in London.

Career

Dowling worked in data entry for a films database before he became a freelance journalist, first working for GQ, then women's magazines and the Independent on Sunday.[3] He is a columnist for The Guardian and has a weekly column in the paper's Saturday magazine, Weekend. His column replaced Jon Ronson's in 2007. He writes observational columns, often about his wife.[4] Sam Leith of The Guardian noted that "Dowling's a very fresh and smart writer, as he needs to be. Stories about machete massacres or ebola pandemics pretty much write themselves: writing about nothing much, week in, week out, is the real test."[5] Dowling also worked as a cartoonist for a short time.[6]

Dowling's books include a 2001 book about the inventor of the disposable razor, King Camp Gillette,[7] Suspicious Packages and Extendable Arms, a collection of his writing from The Guardian, and The Giles Wareing Haters' Club, his 2007 debut novel concerning a journalist Googling himself (narcissurfing[8]) who finds an online club of people who hate him, inspired by Dowling searching for his name online.[9] Giles Wareing was reviewed by TLS.[10] Metro said it is "a fine comedy of domestic triviality".[11]

Dowling said of his 2014 book How to Be a Husband: "It got quite a bit of publicity in the U.K. when it came out and [my wife] wasn't prepared for all that."[12] Tom Hodgkinson writing in The Spectator called this book "a rare delight".[13] Leith in The Guardian said there is "pleasure and treasure here."[5] David Evans wrote in The Independent: "It's a rare thing to be able to write about life as a husband and father in such a way as to elicit nods of recognition among those who are neither of those things; Dowling does it with panache."[14]

Published work

  • Inventor of the Disposable Culture: King Camp Gillette 1855–1932 (Faber & Faber, 2001, Template:ISBN)
  • Not the Archer prison diary (Ebury Press, 2002, Template:ISBN
  • Suspicious Packages & Extendable Arms (Guardian Newspapers Ltd, 2007, Template:ISBN)
  • The Giles Wareing Haters' Club (Picador, 2008, Template:ISBN)
  • How to Be a Husband (Fourth Estate, 2014, Template:ISBN)
  • Dad You Suck (Fourth Estate, 2017, Template:ISBN)
  • How To Be Happy All The Time: The Unexpected Joys of Being A Cynic (Everything Bad is Good for You Book 2) (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019, Template:ISBN)

Personal life

Dowling was born in Connecticut. His mother was a schoolteacher, his father was a dentist, and he has a brother and two sisters.[3] He moved to the UK from New York at the age of 27 and currently lives in London with his wife Sophie de Brandt[15][16] and their three sons.[17] Dowling has played banjo (which his wife bought for his birthday) in the band Police Dog Hogan[18][19] since 2009, and he writes about their festival gigs, including Glastonbury, in his column.[20][21][22]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."How to be a Husband web sampler". Harper Collins. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Robert Timothy Dowling". Companies House. Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ridout, Annie (December 26, 2016). "Tim Dowling on fatherhood, marriage and freelancing". The Early Hour. Archived from the original on August 15, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Muller-Heyndyk, Rachel (March 24, 2017). "Interview: The Guardian columnist, Tim Dowling". Xcity Plus. City University. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Leith, Sam (June 12, 2014). "How to Be a Husband review – Tim Dowling's take on marriage". The Guardian. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sauer, Patrick (February 20, 2015). "Deciphering Daddy: A Q&A with Tim Dowling, Author of How to Be a Husband". Signature. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dowling, Tim (May 10, 2001). "Genius at the cutting edge". Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Courtney, Kevin (February 19, 2008). "ConText: NNarcissurfing". Irish Times. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dowling, Tim (April 14, 2007). "Comedy of manners". The Guardian. London. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Clark, Alex (July 6, 2007). "The Giles Wareing Haters' Club". Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Giles Wareing Haters' Club". Metro. May 31, 2007. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hunter, Jennifer (March 13, 2015). "Guardian columnist Tim Dowling on how to be a husband". Toronto Star. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hodgkinson, Thomas W. (July 12, 2014). "A guide to marriage, moving and fatherhood – and also not a bad tool with which to beat your solicitor to death". The Spectator. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, David (May 30, 2015). "Paperback book reviews: The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro, How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran, Gut by Giulia Enders, How to be a Husband by Tim Dowling, The Mongol Empire by John Man". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sawyer, Miranda (October 11, 2014). "5 Live Daily; Woman's Hour; Today – radio review". The Guardian. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tim Dowling and his wife Sophie de Brandt go to war". Woman's Hour. BBC Radio 4. October 9, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dowling, Tim (November 15, 2008). "'I have known my wife for many years, and the children are right to be afraid'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
  18. ^ Police Dog Hogan
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hughes, Tim (January 23, 2014). "Top dogs find middle ground – interview with Police Dog Hogan". York Press. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dowling, Tim (June 25, 2015). "You're never too old for Glastonbury". Radio Times. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hobbs, Mary Anne (June 20, 2015). "Tim Dowling: The Joy Of Playing In A Part-Time Band". BBC 6 Music. Retrieved June 20, 2017.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith Hughes, Harriet (February 15, 2013). "Middle-Aged-Man-Band?". Cherwell. Retrieved June 20, 2017.

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