Lynn Barber studied English at Oxford University. She began her career in journalism at Penthouse, and has since worked for a number of major British newspapers and for Vanity Fair. She has won five British Press Awards and currently writes for the Observer. She has published two volumes of her celebrated interviews, Mostly Men and Demon Barber.

當記者林恩•巴博爾16歲在一個公車站被一個有魅力的老男人請進他的跑車時，她的生活徹底被毀瞭。她原本是一個朝著牛津大學努力的陽光自信女孩。與這個男人的情人關係意外地得到瞭她在郊區的傳統的父母的支持，也讓她走進瞭60年代初聲名狼藉的倫敦西部的半犯罪世界。她深陷墮落，直到有一天她幡然醒悟。 《教育》，做為這一令人入迷的迴憶錄的開篇，首次在格蘭塔雜誌上發錶時獲得瞭高度評價，英國廣播公司正在根據尼剋•霍恩比改編的劇本將其搬上熒幕。 根據林恩•巴博爾的迴憶錄改編的電影《教育》的預演將於10月底發行。

Lynn Barber's true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husband-to-be. "An Education" tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) men's magazine "Penthouse' before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber - Britain's most entertaining and most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husband. Her writing is refreshingly frank and funny.