Liz Hodgkinson: Brief biography

Liz Hodgkinson was born in the boring small town of St Neots, Cambridgeshire. Educated at Huntingdon Grammar School she then read English at Durham University. After a very short career teaching in a girls’ grammar school she became a freelance reporter / columnist providing copy to several local papers in the North-East.

Her first job in Fleet Street was as a feature and fashion writer on the Sunday People. She later worked for The Sun, Daily Mail and Times. As a freelance journalist, she has contributed to most major national publications, writing on a variety of subjects from health and lifestyle to interviews, investigations and personal finance. Liz’s lifelong interest in property and interior decoration led to a second career as a small-time landlord and property developer out of which came her best-selling property titles.

She broadcasts frequently on radio and television and is an experienced public speaker. For many years, Liz taught journalism at the City Lit Adult College in Covent Garden: she views with pride the many students who have been published in major titles.

Liz is amicably divorced from the science journalist Neville Hodgkinson. As the mother of the increasingly famous writers Tom Hodgkinson and Will Hodgkinson, she frequently finds herself lampooned in her sons’ articles in the national press. However, Liz is not above hitting back so asserts that they had better watch their pampered steps.

Liz lives in Worthing but is a metropolitan at heart so is often in London for conferences, recordings and meetings with publishers and editors.  She is a member of The Society of Authors, The Guild of Health Writers and The National Federation of Residential Landlords