Natasha Walter was born in London in 1967. She read English at St John's College, Cambridge University, and then went to Harvard as a graduate student on a Frank Knox Fellowship. Her first job was at Vogue magazine, she subsequently worked as a reviewer, columnist and feature writer at the Independent, the Observer and the Guardian and became a regular broadcaster particularly on BBC2's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
 
In 1998 her first book, The New Feminism, was published.  She is a passionate advocate for the rights of women and children who seek asylum in the UK , and in 2006 she founded the charity Women for Refugee Women. She lives in London with her partner and their daughter and son. Her new book, Living Dolls, is published in February 2010 by Virago.

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