Brigid keenan biography examples

British author and journalist (born )

Brigid Ann Keenan (born )^{[citation needed]} is an author and journalist.

She was born in Ambala, India,^[1] where her father was an officer in the British Indian Army during the Raj.

Her family repatriated to the United Kingdom after India's independence in , and she was subsequently sent to convent schools in England and a finishing school in Paris.^[2]

Keenan has worked as an editor on Nova magazine, The Observer and The Sunday Times.^[3] Her older sister Moira Keenan () was also a successful journalist who worked as Woman's Editor of The Times whilst Keenan had the same role at The Observer.^[2] When Keenan secured her job at The Sunday Times, the paper had mistaken her for her older, and at the time, more successful sister.^[4] After marrying a European Union diplomat, Keenan left her successful career as a fashion editor^[5] to become a tra