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Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. He began his career as a music journalist on the ''NME'', writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for ''The Daily Telegraph'', before going on to write for ''Daily Mirror'' for 18 years. Since September 2013 he has written his current column for ''The Sun''. Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme ''The Late Show'', and still appears infrequently on the successor ''Newsnight Review''; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called ''Big Mouth''. He is the author of the multi-million selling novel ''Man and Boy'' (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including ''The Kids'' (1976), ''Platinum Logic'' (1981) and ''Limelight Blues'' (1983), before he found mainstream success by focussing on the tribulations of thirty-something men. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – ''One For My Baby'' (2001), ''Man and Wife'' (2003), ''The Family Way'' (2004), ''Stories We Could Tell'' (2006), ''My Favourite Wife'' (2007), ''Starting Over'' (2009), ''Men From the Boys'' (2010), ''The Murder Bag'' (2014), and ''The Slaughter Man'' (2015). His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the female 'Chick Lit'. ==Background and personal life== Born in Romford, Essex, he was the only child of working class parents. He lived for the first five years of his life in a rented flat above a shop in Essex, before his family moved to their own council house in Billericay, Essex.〔Jan Moir ("'I want to outsell John Grisham'" ), telegraph.com, 16 August 2004〕 His father was a former Royal Naval Commando who won the Distinguished Service Medal in World War Two.〔Ben Thompson ("The Interview" ), ''The Independent'', 24 March 1996〕 After the war, he worked as a lorry driver, market trader and greengrocer.〔("Why Tony Parsons loves life in the slow lane" ), Walesonline, 9 August 2009〕 His mother was a school dinner lady.〔 Parsons attended Barstable Grammar School, Basildon (now Barstable School), which he left aged 16 with 5 O-levels.〔(Nigel Farndale Tony Parsons Interview ). Retrieved 10 October 2015.〕 He then worked in a series of low-paid, unskilled menial jobs. He then got a job with a city insurance company as a computer operator where his free time allowed him to develop his literary skills – publishing an underground paper called the ''Scandal Sheet''. Parsons married fellow NME journalist Julie Burchill – they had both answered the same advert in the paper requesting "hip, young gunslingers" to apply as new writers. He and Burchill collaborated on a book in 1979 – ''The Boy Looked at Johnny''. After the collapse of their marriage in 1984, Parsons became a single parent caring for their four-year-old son, Bobby Kennedy Parsons. The experience of being a young man caring for a small child was to later influence his best-selling novel, ''Man and Boy''. Parsons' father died of cancer in 1987 and his mother died of cancer in 1999, just weeks before the publication of ''Man and Boy''. The book is dedicated to Parsons' mother. In 1992, Parsons married his Japanese wife, Yuriko. They have one daughter, Jasmine. He lives with his wife and daughter in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tony Parsons (British journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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