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Hadley Freeman | |
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| Born | Hadley Clare Freeman (1978-05-15)15 May 1978 (age 47) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Cambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies |
| Alma mater | St Anne's College, Oxford |
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| Known for | Journalist, author |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Catie Lazarus (cousin)[1] |
Hadley Clare Freeman (born 15 May 1978)[2][3] is anAmerican Britishjournalist. She writes forThe Sunday Times,[4] having previously written forThe Guardian.[5]
In 2024 she won Broadsheet Columnist of the Year fromThe Press Awards.[6]
Freeman was born inNew York City to a Jewish family. Her father worked in finance.[7][8] The family moved to London when Freeman was 11.[9] She has dual British and American citizenship.[10]
Freeman suffered fromanorexia and was treated in a psychiatric unit during six different periods between ages 13 and 17.[11] After taking herA-level examinations while boarding at theCambridge Centre for Sixth-form Studies,[3] she read English literature atSt Anne's College, Oxford, and edited the student newspaperCherwell.[12]
After a year in Paris, Freeman worked on the fashion desk ofThe Guardian for eight years.[13] She joinedThe Guardian in 2000 and has worked for the newspaper as a staff writer andcolumnist and contributes to the UK version ofVogue.[14] Following an article forThe Guardian in July 2013 criticisingmisogynistic behaviour, Freeman received a bomb threat onTwitter.[15]
Freeman's books includeThe Meaning of Sunglasses: A Guide to (Almost) All Things Fashionable, in 2009[16] andBe Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies in 2013,[17] which was described by Jennifer Lipman inThe Jewish Chronicle as "a detailed attack on how women are both portrayed and conditioned to act in public life".[18]Life Moves Pretty Fast appeared in 2015.[19]
In March 2020,House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, was published.[20] It is an account of the lives of her grandmother Sala Glass and her three brothers Alex, Jacques, and Henri in Poland, France, and the United States during the course of the twentieth century.[21][22] Karen Heller wrote inThe Washington Post of Freeman being "an exacting historian" who "tackles anti-Semitism, Jewish guilt and success".[23]
Freeman ended herWeekend Guardian column in September 2021 to concentrate on interviews for the newspaper.[24] In November 2022, Freeman announced that she would be leavingThe Guardian and would write forThe Sunday Times.[4]
Her memoirGood Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, recounting her teenage experience of anorexia, was published by Fourth Estate in April 2023.[25][26]
In September 2024, Freeman,Jonathan Freedland andDavid Aaronovitch resigned fromThe Jewish Chronicle.[27]
In June 2018, Freeman denounced the treatment ofundocumented child immigrants arriving in America, drawing parallels with her grandmother's experience of escaping fromthe Holocaust. Freeman described it as deliberate cruelty by theTrump administration, and a reflection of latent racism amongst its supporters.[28][non-primary source needed]
In November 2018, U.S. journalists fromThe Guardian published an opinion piece criticising aGuardian editorial about theGender Recognition Act, arguing it wastransphobic.[29] In tweets, Freeman defended the editorial.[30] She has since been cited as expressing views that some have considered transphobic, particularly in regard to trans people seeking healthcare and trans people struggling with suicidal ideation.[31][32][33] In June 2021, Freeman used her regular opinion column inThe Guardian to describe that she had "lost at least a dozen friends over this ... friends who have told me my beliefs are transphobic".[34]In December 2022, after 22 years of working forThe Guardian Freeman left the newspaper after she said she was denied her request to follow up onThe Daily Telegraph's investigation into the charityMermaids, which supports transgender youth in the UK. She said there was an "atmosphere of real fear" atThe Guardian over its coverage of trans issues, saying that the paper was not allowing her and others to write on gender issues and barring her from interviewingJ. K. Rowling andMartina Navratilova who havegender-critical views.[35]
In an essay in theJewish Quarterly from May 2024, she argues that the progressive Left had "hijacked" the2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and had been misrepresenting those atrocities.[36][non-primary source needed]
Freeman often discusses cinema, particularly from the 1980s, in her articles and occasionally in broadcasts. She has said that her favourite film isGhostbusters[37] and that she has a collection of related books and articles.[38]
She has twin sons and a daughter.[22]
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