Sally Bedell Smith
American journalist and biographer
Sally Bedell Smith is an American journalist and biographer who has written about royals, presidents and business figures. Her 2012 book Elizabeth the Queen is her best-known work.
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American Born 1948 in Bryn Mawr, United States
About Sally Bedell Smith
Sally Bedell Smith was born Sarah Rowbotham in 1948 and works as a journalist and author. She reported for Time, TV Guide and The New York Times, then became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1996. Her biographies cover Princess Diana, the Kennedy White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Prince Charles. Elizabeth the Queen, published in 2012, won the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence and became a New York Times bestseller. She also served as consultant to playwright Peter Morgan on his play The Audience, about Queen Elizabeth II. CNN began featuring her as a commentator in 2017.