Caitlin Moran (born Catherine Elizabeth Moran) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author. She writes for The Times, contributing two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".
Moran was named British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011 and Interviewer of the Year 2011. In 2012, she was named Columnist of the Year by the London Press Club, and Culture Commentator at the Comment Awards in 2013.
Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen, she joined the music weekly, Melody Maker, and at eighteen, she briefly presented the pop show "Naked City" on Channel 4. Following this early start, she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on The Times – both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column "Celebrity Watch".
The eldest of eight children, home-educated in a council house in Wolverhampton, Caitlin read lots of books about feminism – mainly in an attempt to understand and articulate her thoughts on the subject.