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Zoe Strimpel
Born	Zoe Strimpel 8 July 1982 (1982-07-08) (age 43) London, England
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge Wolfson College, Cambridge University of Sussex
Occupations	Journalist, academic (Gender Studies)
Years active	2010-present

Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.

Early life and education

Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982.^[1][2] She has a brother.^[3] She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16.^[2] She attended the independent Bedales School, then read English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge,^[4] where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.^[5]

In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.^[5]

Career

From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM.^[6] She has written on gender relations for Elle,^[7] the Sunday Times Style magazine,^[8] and HuffPost.^[9] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle,^[10] and writes for The Spectator,^[11] and UnHerd.^[12] She writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph, covering gender, dating, identity, and topical events.^[13]

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity.^{[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]} She presented a podcast on culture called Hyped! with the historian Tom Stammers from 2020 to 2024. She has declared that she is a "pretty major fan of Israel" and wants "Israel’s case to be disseminated to the world".^[21]

Personal life

Strimpel lives in a Jewish neighbourhood of north London.^[22][23] She had a daughter in 2024.^[24] She is a US citizen.^[25]

Bibliography

• What the Hell Is He Thinking? (Penguin, 2010)
• The Man Diet (Avon, 2011)
• Seeking Love in Modern Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020)
• In Defence of Female Promiscuity (Constable, 2026)
• Good Slut (Constable, 2026)

References