Ion trewin biography of rory

I first met Ion in , when he became diary editor of the Times. We did a story or two together and shortly afterwards he was promoted to literary editor, a role in which from the start he was a great success.

But he had arrived by an unusual route for those days. He had left Highgate School after one term of A-Levels to become a journalist, joining the Independent, a small newspaper in Plymouth, as a cub reporter.

Ion trewin biography of rory

It was said that he was the only literary editor in Fleet Street who wasn&#; t an Oxbridge man. I well remember how important it was to get his attention for a book that had just been published.

Indeed his life was steeped in books and literature from the start.

His father was the famous theatre critic J C Trewin, his mother the journalist Wendy Trewin, and he left you in no doubt about the role that their book-filled house in Hampstead had played in his upbringing.

In , the print unions brought the Times to a halt and Ion was offered the role of