Alison Kervin is an award-winning journalist, biographer and novelist. Kervin is the Sports Editor of the Mail on Sunday newspaper and is the first female Sports Editor of a national newspaper in England. She was awarded an OBE in the 2017 New Year's Honours list. Before her editing job, Alison worked as chief sports feature writer for The. Times, chief sports interviewer for the Daily Telegraph and editor of Rugby World magazine. In 1994 she was appointed editor of Rugby World magazine. She became publisher of IPC sports publications in 1997, overseeing Rugby World and Golf Monthly. In 1999 she became rugby editor of The Times, before becoming the paper’s chief sports feature writer in 2003. She left to embark on a series of book projects: including the World Cup winning Rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward’s biography, and was co-writer on autobiographies with Olympic athlete Denise Lewis and England rugby stars Jason Leonard and Phil Vickery. She is also the author of a History of the Rugby World Cup.
