- Frances Stonor Saunders
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 forChannel 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-fundedCongress for Cultural Freedom . Stonor Saunders' other works reflect her academic background as a medievalist.In 2005, after some years as the arts editor and 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 .Bibliography
*"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)
*"Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman", 2004, Faber, ISBN 0-571-21908-X (in the USA: "The Devil's Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy", 2005, Fourth Estate, ISBN 0-06-077729-X
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