Sally Bedell Smith
| Sally Bedell Smith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Sally Rowbotham May 27, 1948 Bryn Mawr, PA |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Sally Bedell |
| 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(s) | Stephen G. Smith |
| Children | Kirk Bedell Elisabeth Bedell Clive David Branson Smith |
| Awards | 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine reporting 1986 fellow at Freedom Forum Media Studies Center 2012 Washington Irving Medal recipient for Literary Excellence 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for Elizabeth the Queen. |
| Website | www |
| Notes | |
Sally Bedell Smith (born May 27, 1948) is an American historian and author specializing in biographies of American political, cultural, and business leaders, as well as members of the British Royal Family. She has been a contributing editor at Vanity Fair for over 20 years, and is married to Stephen G. Smith, former editor of U.S. News & World Report and current editor in chief of National Journal Daily. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Sally Bedell Smith (née Rowbotham) was born in Bryn Mawr, PA and grew up in 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. She received her B.A. from Wheaton College and her M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she was the winner of the Robert Sherwood Memorial Travel-Study Scholarship and the Women's Press Club of New York Award.
Smith spent her early career working as a reporter for Time, TV Guide, and The New York Times, where she was a lead cultural news reporter specializing in television.
In 1981, Smith published Up The Tube: Prime-time TV and the Silverman Years, an inside look at the American television industry, its ratings wars of the 1970s, and the meteoric career of Fred Silverman, who famously worked as an executive at all of the Big Three TV networks. She won the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award in 1982, and became a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1986.
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