Sally Bedell Smith
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Born | Sarah Rowbotham May 27, 1948 |
Other names | Sally Bedell, Sally Smith |
Education | B.A.Wheaton College M.S.Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
Occupation | Biographer |
Employer | Vanity Fair(contributing editor) |
Agent | Amanda Urban |
Notable work | Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch(January 2012) |
Board member of | Deerfield Academy The Buckley School 826DC Columbia Journalism Review |
Spouse | Stephen G. Smith |
Children | 3 |
Awards | 1982Sigma Delta Chi Awardfor magazine reporting |
Website | www |
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Sarah Bedell Smith(born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She has been a contributing editor forVanity Fairsince 1996. Previously, she was a cultural news reporter forThe New York TimesandTime.She has written biographies of political, cultural, and business figures in the United States and members of theBritish royal family.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]Sarah Rowbotham was born inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.She is the daughter of Ruth (Kirk) and James Howard Rowbotham, abrigadier generaland businessman.[5][6][7]She grew up in the nearby town ofSt. Davids.She graduated fromRadnor High Schoolin 1966 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in November 2008.[8]She earned herBachelor of ArtsfromWheaton CollegeandMaster of SciencefromColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism,where she won the Robert Sherwood Memorial Travel-Study Scholarship and the Women's Press Club of New York Award.
Career
[edit]Smith spent her early career as a cultural news reporter forTime,TV Guide,andThe New York Times.In 1996, she joinedVanity Fairas contributing editor.
Smith has written biographies of several notable persons, including television executives, socialites, politicians, and the British royal family.
As a result of her 2012 biography ofQueen Elizabeth II,Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch,Smith served as playwrightPeter Morgan's consultant on the London and New York productions ofThe Audience,his award-winning drama about Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers, starringHelen Mirren.[9]The book won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, and the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for best book in history and biography.[citation needed]
She was awarded theSigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Awardin 1982.[citation needed]
Bibliography
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Sally Bedell Smith".Contemporary Authors Online.Detroit:Gale.2007.GaleH1000113089.Retrieved2012-01-17– viaFairfax County Public Library.Gale Biography In Context.(subscription required)
- ^Smith, Sally Bedell(December 9, 1990)."In All His Glory: The Life of William Paley".Booknotes(Interview). Interviewed byBrian Lamb.C-SPAN.Retrieved2023-03-13.
I went to Wheaton College in Massachusetts and then got my masters at Columbia Journalism School.
- ^"Society of the Four Arts".Archived fromthe originalon 2013-04-14.Retrieved2012-01-17.
- ^"Sally Bedell Smith".Sally Bedell Smith.Retrieved2022-07-25.
- ^"Sarah Bedell Wed To Stephen Smith".The New York Times.May 23, 1982.
- ^"Memorial: James H. Rowbotham '32".Princeton Alumni Weekly.2016-01-21.
- ^"Weddings: Cynthia Drayton, James Rowbotham".The New York Times.December 8, 1996.
- ^"Hall of Fame / 2008 Hall of Fame Inductions".Wayne, PA:Radnor Township School District.Retrieved2012-01-17.
- ^"Helen Mirren, the Queen & The Audience | Royal Oak Foundation".2015-05-11.Retrieved2016-10-04.
External links
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