11 Facts About Sally Beauman

Sally Vanessa Beauman was an English journalist and writer, author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels.

Sally Beauman was educated at Redland High School and Girton College, Cambridge.

Sally Beauman worked for two years as a critic and contributing editor for New York magazine, for which her first assignment was interviewing Norman Mailer.

Sally Beauman was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1970 for journalism, and at the age of 24 edited Queen magazine, becoming the arts editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine.

Sally Beauman worked as an investigative journalist, interviewer and critic for many leading publications in Britain and the US, including The New Yorker.

Sally Beauman wrote an early appreciation of Monique Wittig's second novel, Les Guerilleres, in The New York Times Book Review.

Sally Beauman received a record-breaking advance for her first novel, Destiny, which became an international best-seller.

Sally Beauman was first married to Christopher Beauman, an economist, from 1966 to 1971.

Sally Beauman later married Alan Howard, the actor, whom she met in 1970 while interviewing him for The Telegraph Magazine.

On 7 July 2016, Sally Beauman died in her sleep at a London hospital, aged 71.

Sally Beauman is buried with her husband on the east side of Highgate Cemetery.