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Sheila Weller

Biography

Sheila Weller

Sheila Weller is the author of the acclaimed family memoir DANCING AT CIRO'S; the New York Times bestseller GIRLS LIKE US: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon — and the Journey of a Generation; and THE NEWS SORORITY: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour — and the Triumph of Women in TV News. Her investigative, human interest and cultural history journalism has won multiple major magazine awards. She has contributed to Vanity Fair, was a senior contributing editor of Glamour and a contributing editor of New York, and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Elle, Marie Claire, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and The Washington Post.

Sheila Weller

Books by Sheila Weller

Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge
by Sheila Weller - Biography, Nonfiction

Sheila Weller traces Carrie Fisher’s life from her Hollywood royalty roots to her untimely and shattering death after Christmas 2016. Her mother was the spunky and adorable Debbie Reynolds; her father, the heartthrob crooner Eddie Fisher. When Eddie ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, the scandal thrust little Carrie Frances into a bizarre spotlight, gifting her with an irony and an aplomb that would resonate throughout her life. Weller sympathetically reveals the conditions that Fisher lived with: serious bipolar disorder and an inherited drug addiction. Still, despite crises and overdoses, her life’s work --- as an actor, a novelist and memoirist, a script doctor, a hostess and a friend --- was prodigious and unique.

The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour — and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News
by Sheila Weller - Biography, Nonfiction

For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women --- Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour --- broke into the newsroom’s once impenetrable “boys’ club.” Drawing on exclusive interviews with their colleagues and intimates from childhood on, THE NEWS SORORITY reveals the hard struggles and inner strengths that shaped these women and powered their success.