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Joe Bennett is English by birth and was raised in Brighton – a town once described as looking as if it was helping the police with their enquiries.

Joe went to Cambridge University and then, for want of any better ideas, taught English in Spain, France, Canada and, from 1987, New Zealand.

In 1998, Joe ran from the classroom to become a newspaper columnist. He has twice been voted columnist of the year at Qantas Media Awards...

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Joe Bennett is English by birth and was raised in Brighton – a town once described as looking as if it was helping the police with their enquiries.

Joe went to Cambridge University and then, for want of any better ideas, taught English in Spain, France, Canada and, from 1987, New Zealand.

In 1998, Joe ran from the classroom to become a newspaper columnist. He has twice been voted columnist of the year at Qantas Media Awards.

Joe blasts every topic with the limpid comic prose which has led to his columns being syndicated throughout New Zealand and induced international publishers Simon and Schuster to publish a collection of his columns throughout the rest of the English-speaking world. Now a freelance writer, he appears with regular irregularity on television and National Radio.

Joe has had several books published in NZ by Hazard Press, and three worldwide by Simon and Schuster. Titles include 'Just Walking the Dogs', 'Sleeping Dogs and Other Lies' and 'So Help Me Dog'. More recently, in 2008, he had his sixth book ‘Where Underpants come from’ published.

Joe lives with a dog and three chickens on the shady side of Lyttelton.