User:Lebow70/sandbox

Sasha Moorsom Young (radio producer and writer)
Sasha Young (née Moorsom, 25 January 1931 - 21 June 1993) was a radio producer, social researcher, and novelist.

Early Life
Sasha Young was born at Ramsdean End in Hampshire, the daughter of Raisley Moorsom and Ann Moorsom.

Education
She was educated at Bedales School and Girton College, Cambridge.

Personal Life
In 1960, she married Michael Young, with whom she had a daughter, Sophie Young, and a son, Toby Young.

Career
She worked as a radio producer on the BBC Third Programme, 1953-61, where she produced documentaries and programmes about literature. She was also editor of the educational magazine Where?, 1962-4, and a regular contributor of articles to The Listener. Later in life she published two novels and a volume of her poems was collected and published posthumously.

Publications

 * A Lavender Trip (1976)
 * In The Shadow of the Paradise Tree (1983)
 * Your Head in Mine (1994)