AA Gill was one of Britain's best-loved columnists. Best known for food and travel writing, he was The Sunday Times's restaurant reviewer and television critic, as well as contributing to Vanity Fair, GQ and Esquire, and the author of eleven books. His writing received numerous awards, from the Amnesty International Media Award to the Hatchet Job of the Year Award (for his excoriating take down of Morrissey's Autobiography). He died in December 2016.
