About Sally Beauman
Sally Vanessa Beauman was an English journalist and writer. She was the author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels. Beauman's first work of non-fiction was The Royal Shakespeare Company's Centenary Production of Henry V (Pergamon Press, 1976), a study of the RSC's 1975 staging. She was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1970 for journalism, and at the age of 24 edited Queen magazine, also becoming the arts editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. She received a record-breaking advance for her first novel, Destiny, which became an international best-seller.
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