Grace Dent is an English journalist, author, and broadcaster. Dent writes mainly for The Independent, in which her opinion column appears every Wednesday and a television column every Saturday. She is a restaurant critic for the London Evening Standard, writing a weekly column called "Grace and Flavour". She also writes for magazines such as Tatler and Marie Claire. Dent has written eleven novels for teenagers. Her "Diary of A Snob" novels were acquired for TV development by Nickelodeon in March 2011. Dent appears on British television and has fronted documentaries for Sky Atlantic and Channel 4. She has appeared on Have I Got News For You, The Now Show, The Review Show, Film 2012, The Culture Show, Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, Front Row, The Lauren Laverne Show. Dent's first non-fiction title How To Leave Twitter was published in July 2011. 

October 3rd, 1973 in Carlisle (Age 50)