Simon Heffer

Simon Heffer (b.1960) is a well-known traditional conservative English journalist and author. His tour de force was his biography of Enoch Powell.

Education & career

Heffer was educated at King Edward VI School Chelmsford, and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, where he read English. After a spell as a medical journalist and a leader-writer for The Times, he joined the Daily Telegraph in 1986. He became their Deputy Editor in 1991, as well as becoming political correspondent for the magazine The Spectator (which was owned by the Telegraph.) He subsequently also wrote a column for the London Evening Standard. From June 1994 until October 1995 he was again Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph as well as its political columnist. In 1995 he became a columnist for the Daily Mail and a prolific contributor to other newspapers and periodicals.

He is married with two sons and lives in north Essex.

Publications

(Incomplete)

• Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle (1995) (Widespread acclaim).
• Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII (1998).
• Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998) ISBN 0-297-84286-2
• Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England (1999) ISBN 0-297-64332-0

References

• Weidenfeld & Nicholson publishers' biographies.