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Rachel Campbell-Johnston (born October 1963 [1] ) is The Times newspaper's chief art critic.

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Appointed to her post in 2002, she has also been her newspaper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor. [2]

Mysterious Wisdom, her biography of the artist Samuel Palmer, was published in 2011. [3] The Child's Elephant, a novel about an African boy who rears an elephant, set against the backdrop of child soldiers fighting for a rebel army, was published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Carnegie Prize.

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  1. "Rachel Frances CAMPBELL-JOHNSTON - Personal Appointments". Companies House . Retrieved 12 August 2021.
  2. "Rachel Campbell-Johnston", BBC Newsnight Review, 14 October 2005
  3. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer, Bloomsbury Publishing