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Dan Kieran (born 10 June 1975) is a British travel writer, humorist, literary editor and entrepreneur. He is best known for his travel books and for his role as deputy editor of The Idler between 2000 and 2010. He is also a CEO and co-founder (with John Mitchinson and Justin Pollard) of the publishing company Unbound.[1][2]

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Dan Kieran
Born	(1975-06-10) 10 June 1975 (age 47)
Occupation	Author, editor, publisher
Genre	Travel, Slow Movement
Website
twitter.com/dan_kieran

Kieran is author of The Idle Traveller,[3][4] I Fought The Law, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Three Men In A Float (with Ian Vince).

Three Men In A Float became a half-hour BBC Radio 4 programme of the same name, which Kieran presented with Ian Vince and Prasanth Visweswaran. It aired on 27 February 2008.[5]

Kieran is editor of Idler Books' Crap Jobs, Crap Holidays (Crap Vacations in the United States), The Book of Idle Pleasures; and co-editor of two volumes of Crap Towns.

His writing credits include The Observer,[6] The Sunday Times,[7] The Daily Telegraph,[8] The Times[9] and The Guardian.[10]

Published Books

• Crap Jobs: 100 Tales of Workplace Hell (2005) Harper Paperbacks, ISBN 0-06-083341-6 Telegraph
• The Idler Book of Crap Towns: The 50 Crap Worst Places to Live in the UK (with Sam Jordison) (2006), Macmillan UK, ISBN 0-7522-1582-5
• The Idler Book of Crap Towns II (2006) Macmillan UK. ISBN 0-7522-2545-6 (Telegraph review
• The "Idler" Book of Crap Holidays (2005) Bantam, ISBN 0-553-81737-X
• How Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe and all that surrounds it (2006) Snow Books
• The Myway Code (with Ian Vince) (2006), Boxtree Ltd, ISBN 0-7522-2620-7
• I Fought the Law (2007), Bantam, ISBN 0-553-81769-8
• The Book Of Idle Pleasures (2008), Ebury Press
• Three Men In A Float (with Ian Vince) (2008), John Murray Ltd, ISBN 0-7195-9501-0
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles (2009), John Murray Ltd, ISBN 1-84854-014-0
• The Idle Traveller (2012), Automobile Association, ISBN 978-0749573423 Telegraph review
• The Surfboard (2018), Unbound, ISBN 978-1783526383

References

External links

• Virgin Podcast Interview
• 3:AM Magazine interview
• Londonpaper Interview
• Stockport Express article
• The Idler
• BBC article by Sam Jordison
• Dan Kieran's website
• Review of I Fought The Law in The Independent^{[dead link]}
• Tony Blair's recommended reading list (top of the list: I Fought The Law) in The Times

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