Frances Stead Sellers
| Frances Stead Sellers | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
Frances Stead United Kingdom |
| Residence | United States |
| Education |
B.A. M.A. |
| Alma mater |
University of Oxford University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer |
The Washington Post Civilization Magazine Dædalus |
| Spouse(s) | Mortimer Sellers |
Frances Stead Sellers is a senior writer and editor at The Washington Post.
Life and career
Sellers is a senior writer at The Post's Sunday magazine.[1]
She has been the editor[2] of several sections of The Washington Post, including Health and Science and the signature daily section, Style, which focuses on profiles, personalities, arts and ideas.
Sellers ran the newsroom's health, science and environmental coverage, during the battle over health reform, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Her previous jobs at the Post include deputy editor of Outlook, the Sunday commentary section.
Sellers joined The Post from Civilization, the bi-monthly magazine of the Library of Congress. She was a key member of the launch team, and led the magazine to a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its first year of publication. Sellers started her career at Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She has appeared as a commentator on a range of subjects on TV and radio, including BBC World News, NPR's Diane Rehm Show[3] and MSNBC's Morning Joe[4][5][6][7] and interviewed prominent figures in the arts and sciences.[8][9]
Frances Stead Sellers was born in Britain, graduated from Oxford University and came to the United States as a British Thouron scholar in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Among many other topics, she is known for writing about language, citizenship and identity. Sellers is married to the law professor Mortimer Sellers.
Awards
- Press fellowship, Wolfson College, Cambridge - 2006 [10]
- Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship - 2003 [11]
- British Thouron Scholarship
References
- ↑ "Frances Stead Sellers becomes senior writer". The Washington Post. 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ Betsy Rothstein (2011-06-16). "WaPo Names New 'Collegial' Style Editor | FishbowlDC". Mediabistro.com. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ C.P. Snow (2015-02-26). "Readers' Review: "The Masters" by C.P. Snow". The Diane Rehm Show. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Meet the hero of the Harlem Renaissance". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Fortune releases most powerful women list". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "What will be Lewinsky's next move?". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Ebola and the stigma of quarantine". MSNBC. 2014-09-17. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Siri Hustvedt: 2014 National Book Festival Webcast | Library of Congress". Loc.gov. 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Frances Stead Sellers". C-SPAN.org. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Alumni | Wolfson College Cambridge". Wolfson.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-03-02.
- ↑ "Frances Stead Sellers | Alicia Patterson Foundation". Aliciapatterson.org. Retrieved 2015-03-02.