Zoe Abigail Williams (born 7 August 1973) is a Welsh columnist, journalist, and author. Early life Zoe Abigail Williams was born on 7 August 1973 in Hounslow, West London, England. Williams was educated at the independent Godolphin and Latymer School for girls in London and read modern history at Lincoln College, Oxford. Her father, Mark Williams, was a psychologist, and her mother was a set designer for the BBC. Her parents separated in 1976 and divorced 20 years later. Williams has an older sister, Stacey, and half- and step-siblings from her father's marital and extramarital relationships. Williams said her father was a petty criminal because he committed insurance fraud. Writing Williams is a lifestyle, wellness and political journalist for The Guardian—with her Fitness in your 40s, family and political columns. Her work has also appeared in other publications, including the New Statesman, The Spectator, NOW Magazine, the London Cycling Campaign's magazine London Cyclist, and The Times Literary Supplement. She is also a columnist for the London Evening Standard, for which she was a diarist writing about being a single woman in London. She reviewed restaurants for The Sunday Telegraph magazine. In May 2011, Williams wrote about fare dodging when in her 30s while travelling on London buses. She wrote: "I actually had a lot of affection for bendy buses, mainly because evading your fare was so easy that to pay was almost missing the point. We used to call it freebussing." Political In 2014, Williams defended the social policy legacy of former Labour prime minister Tony Blair and denounced those calling him a war criminal, and has strongly condemned the rule of Fidel Castro in Cuba. In August 2015, Williams endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. She wrote in The Guardian: "The point is, Corbyn doesn't have to be right about everything; he doesn't have to be certain, and fully costed about everything; he doesn't even have to be responsive and listening to everything. This political moment is about breaking open the doors and letting the 21st century in." Feminism Williams writes about her personal life from a feminist perspective, such as her marriages, motherhood, and her abortion. She wrote Bring It On, Baby: How to have a dudelike pregnancy, a 2010 book of advice for mothers-to-be, which was republished in 2012 as What Not to Expect When You're Expecting. Awards Williams was longlisted for the