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| Born | Sarah Rowbotham (1948-05-27)May 27, 1948 (age 77) |
| 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 | 1982Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine reporting |
| Website | www |
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Sarah Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American journalist and biographer. She was a contributing editor forVanity Fair and a reporter forThe New York Times andTime. She focuses on biographies of members of theBritish royal family.[4]
Sarah Rowbotham was born inBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She is the daughter of Ruth (Kirk) and James Howard Rowbotham, abrigadier general and businessman.[5][6][7] She grew up in the nearby town ofSt. Davids. She graduated fromRadnor High School in 1966 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in November 2008.[8] She earned herBachelor of Arts fromWheaton College andMaster of Science fromColumbia 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.
Smith spent her early career as a cultural news reporter forTime,TV Guide, andThe New York Times. In 1996, she joinedVanity 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 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 Award in 1982.[citation needed]
I went to Wheaton College in Massachusetts and then got my masters at Columbia Journalism School.
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