Sarah Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She was a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and a reporter for The New York Times and Time. She focuses on biographies of members of the British royal family.[4]
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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) |
| 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 | 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine reporting |
| Website | www |
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Early life and education
editSarah Rowbotham was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Ruth (Kirk) and James Howard Rowbotham, a brigadier general and businessman.[5][6][7] She grew up in the nearby town of St. Davids. She graduated from Radnor High School in 1966 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in November 2008.[8] She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College and Master of Science from Columbia 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
editSmith spent her early career as a cultural news reporter for Time, TV Guide, and The New York Times. In 1996, she joined Vanity Fair as 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 of Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch, Smith served as playwright Peter Morgan's consultant on the London and New York productions of The Audience, his award-winning drama about Queen Elizabeth II and her prime ministers, starring Helen 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 the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1982.[citation needed]
Bibliography
editReferences
edit- ^ "Sally Bedell Smith". Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale. 2007. Gale H1000113089. Retrieved 2012-01-17 – via Fairfax 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 by Brian Lamb. C-SPAN. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
I went to Wheaton College in Massachusetts and then got my masters at Columbia Journalism School.
- ^ "Society of the Four Arts". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ "Sally Bedell Smith". Sally Bedell Smith. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ^ "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. Retrieved 2012-01-17.
- ^ "Helen Mirren, the Queen & The Audience | Royal Oak Foundation". 2015-05-11. Retrieved 2016-10-04.