Susie Boniface (born 1976 or 1977 in
Tonbridge,[1] Kent) is an English
journalist and author who has written for several newspapers and uses the
pseudonymFleet Street Fox in her Daily Mirror column and on
Twitter. She used the name Lillys Miles while writing an anonymous blog, but revealed her identity when her book Diaries of a Fleet Street Fox was published in 2013.
Early life
Susie Boniface was born in 1976 or 1977. She became interested in journalism in 1989 after the
fall of the Berlin Wall and then reading Bluff Your Way in Journalism (1988) by Nigel Foster.[2]
Boniface was nominated in the Campaign of the Year category of the 2009
British Press Awards for "British Nuclear Test Vets".[8] She won third "must follow journo" in the 2011
CRAPPs awards as Fleet Street Fox.[9] Fleet Street Fox won the
London Press Club Blog of the Year in 2013.[10] She was nominated for Columnist of the Year (popular press) in the 2014
Society of Editors Press Awards.[11]
Fleet Street Fox
Boniface began her first anonymous blog, now removed, in April 2009[citation needed] and started tweeting as fleetstreetfox in October 2009.[12] She started a second news-based blog as Fleet Street Fox in 2011.[13] She revealed her name in The Times in 2013[14][15] at the same time as her book was published by
Constable & Robinson, though her identity was not a closely kept secret before then;[16] she had been named on Twitter at least once in May 2012 after an argument with
Jemima Khan.[17][18]