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: For the male version of this name, Francis Saunders (disambiguation)'' Frances Hélène Jeanne Stonor Saunders (born 14 April 1966) is a British journalist and historian. A few years after graduating (in 1987〔(Shadow Company ), Biography〕) with a first-class Honours degree in English from St Anne's College, Oxford,〔(Distinguished alumnae ), 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.〔Frances Stonor Saunders ("Modern art was CIA 'weapon'", ) ''The Independent on Sunday'', 22 October 1995〕 ''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. Stonor Saunders' other works reflect her academic background as a medievalist. In 2005, after some years as the arts editor〔(thePeerage.com ) website〕 and associate editor of the ''New Statesman'', she resigned in protest over the sacking of Peter Wilby, the then-editor. In 2004〔("Meetings of Minds" ), BBC Radio 3 page for first episode〕 and 2005〔("Meetings of Minds" ), BBC Radio 3 page for first episode of second run〕 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. Her second book, ''Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman'' (''The Devil's Broker'' in the US), recounts the life and career of John Hawkwood, a condottiere of the 14th century.〔 English-born, Hawkwood (1320–1394) made a notorious career as a participant in the confused and treacherous power politics of the Papacy, France, and Italy. ''The Woman Who Shot Mussolini'' (2010) is a biography of Violet Gibson,〔Lucy Hughes-Hallett ("The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders", ) ''The Guardian'', 27 February 2010〕 the Anglo-Irish aristocrat who shot Benito Mussolini in 1926, wounding him slightly. Frances Stonor Saunders is the daughter of Julia Camoys Stonor and lives in London. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frances Stonor Saunders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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