Frances Stonor Saunders

Frances Stonor Saunders was a writer, broadcaster and documentary-maker. She wrote for the London Review of Books and Guardian, and was the former Arts Editor of the New Statesman. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, has been translated into twenty languages, and was awarded the Royal Historical Society's William Gladstone Memorial Prize. She was also the author of Hawkwood and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lived in London.