Allison Pearson

Allison Pearson is a British award-winning journalist and novelist, best known for her columns in The Daily Telegraph and the bestselling 2002 novel I Don’t Know How She Does It, which earned her the British Book Awards' Newcomer of the Year honor and was adapted into a film. In recent years, she has courted controversy with outspoken opinions on free speech, Brexit, and gender issues, and was notably investigated in 2024 by Essex Police over a social media post alleged to incite racial hatred.