Frances Stonor Saunders

Frances Stonor Saunders , born in 1966, is a Journaliste and Historienne Britannique.

A few years after being graduate with the St Anne' S College of the University of Oxford, it launches out in a career of director the documentary ones for television. Hidden Hands: In Different History off Modernism , carried out for Chanel 4 in 1995, milked bonds between various art critics and painters abstract expressionnists with the CIA.

Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Farming Cold War (appeared in 1999, translated into French in 2003), its first work developed starting from its documentary work, concentrates on the history of the Congrès for the freedom of the culture, organization religious Anticommuniste secretly financed by the CIA. The other publications of Stonor Saunders rise from its university formation of Médiéviste.

In 2005, after a few years as a writer associated with the weekly magazine New Statesman , she resigns to protest against the dismissal of editor association Peter Wilby. In 2005 and 2006, it presents on BBC Radio operator 3 Meetings off Minds , a series on the meetings between Intellectuels in the History. It contributes regularly to other radio programs.

Works

The Devil' S Broker: Seeking Gold, God, and Glory in Fourteenth-Century Italy , Fourth Estate, 2005.
Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman , Faber, 2004.
Which carries out the dance? The CIA and the cultural Cold war , Denoël, 2003.

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