Deirdre English (born 1948) is the former editor of Mother Jones and author of numerous articles for national publications and television documentaries.[1] She has taught at the State University of New York[2] and currently teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a faculty mentor at the Center for the Study of the Working Family at the Graduate School of Sociology. English is co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice along with a number of pamphlets. She contributed essays to Susan Meiselas's photography book Carnival Strippers.[3]
In 1991, her house burned down in the Oakland Hills Fire.[4]
Her mother is Fanita English.[5] She was married to Don Terner, who died in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.[6]