Sally Beauman

Sally Beauman (born in Devon in 1944) is a British author best known for her Rebecca sequel, Rebecca's Tale. She was educated at Redland High School and Girton College, Cambridge. She is the wife of actor Alan Howard, whom she met in 1970 while interviewing him for The Telegraph Magazine . After a long partnership they married in 2004. They have one son named James and a grandchild. She worked for two years as a critic and contributing editor for... more

Sally Beauman (born in Devon in 1944) is a British author best known for her Rebecca sequel, Rebecca's Tale. She was educated at Redland High School and Girton College, Cambridge. She is the wife of actor Alan Howard, whom she met in 1970 while interviewing him for The Telegraph Magazine . After a long partnership they married in 2004. They have one son named James and a grandchild. She worked for two years as a critic and contributing editor for New York magazine. In 1970 she was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award for her journalism, and at the age of 24 edited Queen Magazine, also becoming Arts Editor of the Sunday Telegraph Magazine. In an interview for the Sunday Times Magazine (published 11 November, 1990), she admitted having written nine pseudonymous Mills & Boon romances before publishing her block-buster novel Destiny in 1987. Beauman's first work of non-fiction was Henry V (Pergamon Press, 1976), a study of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1975 Centenary... less