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Toby Young

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born

October 17, 1963 in Buckinghamshire, England, The United Kingdom

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male

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http://www.tobyyoung.co.uk/

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Nonfiction

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Toby Daniel Moorsom Young (born 1963) is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his failed five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, as well as The Sound of No Hands Clapping, a follow-up about his failure to make it as a Hollywood screenwriter. His obnoxious wit has earned him almost as many enemies as admirers and the title of "England's heterosexual Truman Capote". As the son of a baron, he is entitled to use the title the Honourable, but declines to style himself as such.

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Average rating: 3.10 · 1,897 ratings · 296 reviews · 7 distinct works

	How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 3.12 avg rating — 1,748 ratings — published 2004 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Sound of No Hands Clapping 2.81 avg rating — 124 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir [With Earbuds] by Toby Young, Simon Vance (Goodreads Author) (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	How To Set Up a Free School 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Romance with Cocaine by M. Ageyev, Hugh Aplin (Translation), Toby Young (Foreword) 3.76 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 1934 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Idler 44: Mind Your Business by Tom Hodgkinson, Toby Young, David Boyle 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Orange Blossoms : 50 Years of Growth in Orange County by John Sorenson (Editor), Toby Young, Bob Ziebell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Interactions by Christian Cook (Goodreads Author), Ruth Rendell, Toby Young 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”
― Toby Young, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

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“Some people are lucky enough to stumble across the right path straight away; most of us only discover what the right one is by going down the wrong one first.”
― Toby Young

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“Unbefuckinglievable.”
― Toby Young

tags: memoir

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