Alan Coren

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alan Coren (27 June 1938 - 18 October 2007) was an English humorist, writer and satirist who was well known as a regular panellist on the BBC radio quiz The News Quiz and a team captain on BBC television's Call My Bluff. Coren was also a journalist, and for nine years was the editor of Punch magazine. Alan Coren was born in Southgate, north London in 1938, the son of a builder and a hairdresser.Coren was educated at East Barnet Grammar School, followed by Wadham College at the University of Oxford to which he gained a scholarship, and where he got a First in English in 1960. After taking a Master's degree he studied for a doctorate in modern American literature at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley.