It was shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year. BBC News described it as 'offering readers a frank and deeply personal account of friendships, relationships and growing up as a millennial.' The memoir was shortlisted for the National Book Awards in 2018 in the Autobiography category (won that year by Michelle Obama for Becoming). Books Īlderton's debut book, Everything I Know About Love, was published in February 2018. In 2020, she began working as an agony aunt for The Sunday Times in her column Dear Dolly. Journalism Īlderton began writing for The Sunday Times in 2015, working initially as a dating columnist from 2015 to 2017. Career Īlderton is an author, journalist and podcast host. She earned a degree in Drama and English from the University of Exeter, and a master's degree in journalism from City University. She was educated at St Margaret's School in Bushey, and Rugby School, where she boarded in the sixth form. Born Hannah Alderton, she changed her name to Dolly in her early teens.

She was born to British and Canadian parents, and describes herself as 'half Canadian'. Early life Īlderton was born in London and raised in Stanmore. Her memoir Everything I Know About Love won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortlisted for the 2019 Non-Fiction Narrative Book of the Year in the British Book Awards, and adapted into a BBC/ Peacock eponymous television drama series.

Everything I Know About Love (2018) Ghosts (2020)ĭolly Alderton (born 31 August 1988) is a British journalist, author and podcaster.

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