Catherine Mayer is an author and journalist. Her book Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly is published by Vermilion, an imprint of Random House. She is the London Bureau Chief for TIME

Time (magazine)

Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...

, where she has also served as Senior Editor. She has worked as a foreign correspondent at the German news weekly Focus

Focus (German magazine)

Focus is a German weekly news magazine published in Munich and distributed throughout Germany. It is the third-largest weekly news magazine in Germany. It is considered conservative and leaned towards economic liberalism.- Overview :...

and started her career at The Economist

The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...

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She was President of the Foreign Press Association in London from June 2003 until June 2005. American-born Mayer is married to Andy Gill

Andy Gill

Andy Gill is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands...

 of Gang of Four

Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...

. Her sister is The Young Ones

The Young Ones (TV series)

The Young Ones is a British sitcom, first broadcast in 1982, which ran for two series on BBC2. Its anarchic, offbeat humour helped bring alternative comedy to television in the 1980s and made household names of its writers and performers...

writer Lise Mayer

Lise Mayer

Lise Mayer is a television and film writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, and is best known as a creator and co-writer of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, alongside Rik Mayall and Ben Elton...

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