Charlotte Higgins

Charlotte Higgins has worked for the Guardian for 10 years in various guises from 2001 as Classical Music Editor and from 2003 as Arts correspondent covering cultural affairs for the paper's news section. She is also a regular contributor to its features and op-ed pages; and blogs regularly on its website. She began her career in journalism on Vogue magazine after a stint writing mail-order catalogue copy for a firm selling kitsch history-themed gifts. She read classics at Balliol College Oxford.