Learning to Think: A Memoir
by
Tracy King
Published 12 Mar 2025
About the Author Tracy King is a writer, producer and science communicator based in England. She has contributed to media on subjects ranging from science and technology to politics and video games, for the BBC and in the Guardian, Telegraph, the New Statesman, Stylist and the New European, amongst others. She was a columnist for Custom PC magazine for over ten years. Her science and critical-thinking animations include a collaboration with Tim Minchin, Storm, which has five million views on YouTube and was adapted into a bestselling graphic novel. Her television and radio credits include Sky News, Newsnight, Good Morning Britain and BBC Sounds.
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Her television and radio credits include Sky News, Newsnight, Good Morning Britain and BBC Sounds. Tracy King * * * LEARNING TO THINK. To my family and friends, especially Dad, and Daniel. Prologue I’M TINY. A CHILD. Twelve years old, skinny and short. My black hair is unwashed, lank and flat against my head. I’m standing in the living room of our house, a single radiator pumping out dry heat, a small floor space made bigger by pushing the coffee table to one side. It’s not really a coffee table: it’s a small round dining table with legs that my dad had shortened with a saw. Usually the table stood in front of the settee but tonight I’m standing there instead.
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She looks more serious in photos than she was, because a school photographer once told her not to smile for the camera, as her teeth were crooked. She was a bit of a daddy’s girl but also often to be found hiding behind Jackie. In public she was shy; at home she was a fun and doting older sibling. And me, Tracy King. No middle name. I was loud, confident and often annoying, a more button-nosed, slightly showbiz version of my sister. All-singing, acting, dancing and opinions. The usual words applied: precocious; headstrong; bookworm; know-it-all. My parents affectionately called me Rent-A-Gob (after the eighties TV show Rentaghost).
You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--From Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
by
Lee Gutkind
Published 13 Aug 2012
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Invisible Women
by
Caroline Criado Perez
Published 12 Mar 2019
I couldn’t ask for a better bunch and I’m so grateful to have all of you in my life, especially my beloved HarpySquad and the gang of who really have had to suffer with me through this book on a daily basis. You know who you are. Biggest thanks of all, though, have to go to my amazing Official Friend and cheerleader Tracy King, who has not only worked with me on my madcap feminist campaigns, but who read the very earliest vomit drafts of this book and never stopped encouraging me and promising me I would eventually finish. I could never have done this and have remained (relatively) sane without her. OK, there is one more thanks: to my beloved dog Poppy.