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Sandy Fawkes
British journalist (1929–2005)
Sandra Fawkes (née Boyce-Carmichelle; 30 June 1929 – 26 December 2005) was a British journalist.
Sandy Fawkes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sandra Boyce-Carmichelle (1929-06-30)30 June 1929 |
| Died | 26 December 2005(2005-12-26) (aged 76) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Camberwell College of Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author |
| Employers | |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
Fawkes was found as a baby in the Grand Union Canal.[1] She never discovered the identity of her birth parents.[2] Her birth was registered in the third quarter of 1929 as Unity Pansy Boyce-Carmichele.[3] (The birthdate above is presumably an approximation.)
Fawkes studied at Camberwell School of Art under John Minton. In 1949, she married Wally Fawkes, author of the cartoon strip Flook. The couple had four children, of whom the first died of SIDS.[2] [3] In the 1960s she worked as fashion editor for both Vanity Fair and the Daily Sketch, and then in the 1970s, feature writer for the Daily Express.[4]
In 1974, Fawkes went to the United States on an unsuccessful assignment to try and interview several celebrities, including Vice-President Spiro Agnew.[5] During this time she had a three-day affair with a man who turned out to be the serial killer Paul Knowles, and wrote a best selling book, Killing Time, later republished as Natural Born Killer.[6][7] She said Knowles had been going by the name Daryl Golden and was unsatisfying in the bedroom, requiring self-stimulation in order to have sex.[8][9] Later she was distraught to find out her acquaintance Susan MacKenzie had almost been raped by the killer at gunpoint following their time together.[10]
Fawkes died on 26 December 2005.[1]
She ghostwrote Christine Keeler's autobiography, Nothing But.[4] Her tutor John Minton introduced her to Soho's drinking culture and she became a denizen of Soho's pubs and drinking clubs, in particular The French House, the Coach & Horses and The Colony Room Club. As a result, she appeared several times in the Private Eye cartoon strip The Regulars by Michael Heath and had a small part in John Maybury's film Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon.
- "Sandy Fawkes". The Daily Telegraph. 30 December 2005. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- "Sandy Fawkes: The Reporter and the Serial Killer". 4 April 2019.
- "Obituaries: Sandy Fawkes". The Daily Telegraph. 30 December 2005. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- Scott, Gini Graham (April 1999). Homicide: 100 Years of Murder in America. McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. ISBN 978-0-7373-0049-9.
- Bovsun, Mara (24 April 2010). "Date with the devil: 'Casanova killer' Paul John Knowles spared Fleet Street reporter Sandy Fawkes". Daily News. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- Masters, Brian (19 June 2004). "A week with a human monster!". The Spectator. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- Gaute, J. H. H.; Odell, Robin (1986). Murder Whereabouts. Indiana University: Harrap. ISBN 978-0-245-54258-9.
- Ramsland, Katherine (3 July 2017). "Women Who Run With Killers". Psychology Today. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- Weinman, Sarah (25 August 2019). "'I had 3-day fling with a serial killer – and joked about him being a murderer'". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 26 October 2020.