Caroline Baum is an Australianjournalist and radio and televisionbroadcaster. She was the founding editor ofGood Reading magazine.
Born in London to migrant parents, Baum attended secondary school at theLycée Français Charles de Gaulle, and studied philosophy and politics at theUniversity of York.[citation needed]
On graduating, Baum worked as a writer and researcher forTime-Life Books on a 29-volume series of cook books calledThe Good Cook, before moving to the BBC, where she worked withMichael Parkinson and later worked forLondon Weekend Television onThe South Bank Show.[citation needed]
She moved with her then-partner to Australia in 1985 and was married soon afterwards.[1]
Baum was the founding editor ofGood Reading magazine and worked as features editor for the Australian edition ofVogue. She was also the long-term presenter of theABCTV book programBetween the Lines until the program ended in 1998 and worked as an executive producer withABC Radio National.[2]
In 1995, Baum took leave from the ABC, working as a researcher / producer onThe World on a Plate, a history of food around the world and in 2006, produced and co-wrote her first TV documentary,[citation needed] about Australian writerArthur Upfield, shown on SBS TV.
Until recently[when?] Baum was editorial director ofBooktopia, Australia's largest online bookseller. She curates and hosts talks, blogging for arts organisations, and providing media consultancy. She has also designed a collection of rugs based on her photographic images for Designer Rugs. In 2018 Baum was Reader in Residence at theState Library of New South Wales.[3]
Caroline's first book,Only: A Singular Memoir, was published in March 2017. It is the story of her unconventional childhood and explores what it means to be anonly child—as both child and adult. Also what it means to be the daughter of two people damaged by trauma and tragedy, particularly a domineering and explosive father. Secrets are revealed and differences settled.[4][5]
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