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Sally Bedell Smith

Biography


Headshot of the author, Sally Bedell Smith

Sally Bedell Smith is the author of the bestselling biographies of William S. Paley, Pamela Harriman, Diana, Princess of Wales, John and Jacqueline Kennedy and Bill and Hillary Clinton

A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. She was awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for magazine reporting in 1982 and was a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1986.

Sally lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Stephen. They have three grown children.