Claire Lehmann (née Jensen;[1] born 18 July 1985)[2] is an Australian journalist, publisher, and the founding editor of Quillette.
Early life and family
Lehmann is the daughter of a former teacher and a speech pathologist who was raised in Adelaide, South Australia.[3] She graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English from the University of Adelaide with first-class honours in 2010. Lehmann was then a graduate student in psychology, but dropped out after having a child. She is married and has two children.[4] She is the daughter-in-law of the poet Geoffrey Lehmann.[5]
Bari Weiss regards Lehmann as one of the leaders of the so-called "intellectual dark web".[13] Lehmann is seen as part of the intellectual dark web (IDW) due to publishing Quillette which Politico has referred to as "the unofficial digest of the IDW" which "prides itself on publishing 'dangerous' ideas other outlets won't touch", and criticising "what they see as left-wing orthodoxy".[3]
The Sydney Morning Herald named Lehmann in their "Ten Aussies who shook the world in tech and media in 2018" citing that her online magazine, Quillette, has "attracted as many as 2 million followers a month, [and] is starting to gain significant traction in tech and libertarian circles in the US".[14]
^Lehmann, Claire. "BIO". Claire Lehmann. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2018. Before starting Quillette, I was a grad-student in psychology, but dropped out after having a baby. I graduated from The University of Adelaide with First Class Honours in 2010.
^Lehmann, Claire (26 November 2018). "Tweet". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2019. If you're at a loose end in Sydney tomorrow night, come to my father-in-law's book launch. Geoffrey Lehmann was a poet during the era of the Sydney Push & his memoir has many interesting tales.
^"Claire Lehmann". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020. Retrieved 1 October 2018. Claire Lehmann is a Sydney-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald, Harvard Kennedy School Review, and has been translated into Spanish for Tercera Cultura.