Frances Stonor Saunders
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Frances Stonor Saunders (born 1966) is a British journalist and historian.
A few years after graduating with a first class Honours degree in English from St Anne's College, Oxford, she embarked on a career as a television film-maker. Hidden Hands: A Different History of Modernism made for Channel 4 in 1995 discussed the connection between various American art critics and Abstract Expressionist painters with the CIA. Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999) (in the USA: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters), her first book, developed from her work on the documentary, concentrating on the history of the covertly CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom.
In 2005, after some years as an Associate Editor of the New Statesman, she resigned in protest over the sacking of Peter Wilby, the then editor. That year and in 2006 for Radio 3 she presented Meetings of Minds two three part series on the meetings of intellectuals at significant points in history. She is also a regular contributor to Radio 3's Nightwaves and other radio programmes.
Frances Stonor Saunders lives in London.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy, 2005, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-06-077729-X
- Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman, 2004, Faber, ISBN 0-571-21908-X
- Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War, 1999, Granta, ISBN 1-86207-029-6 (USA: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2000, The New Press, ISBN 1-56584-596-X)
