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Sarah Wood (editor)
Sara(h) Wood may refer to: * Sara Wood (novelist), British romance novelist * Sally Wood (writer), born Sarah Wood (1759–1854), American novelist * Sarah Wood (businesswoman) Sarah Florence Wood (born 1973) is a British businesswoman. She is the co-founder of video advertising platform Unruly and received an OBE for services to innovation and technology. Early life and education Wood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne ..., British businesswoman * Sara Ann Wood (born 1981), an American missing girl who disappeared in 1993 See also * Sara Woods, pseudonym of Lana Bowden-Judd (1922–1985), British mystery writer {{hndis, Wood, Sara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Wood (novelist)
Sara Wood (b. 1941 in England) was a popular British writer of 49 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004. 'Mills & Boon website'' Biography Sara Wood was born on 1941 in the south of England. Her family was poor but aspirational and avid readers. At the age of 11 Sara won a scholarship for a free place at a well-known fee-paying school. Although she passed all of her O level exams at the age of 16, she left school to train as a secretary and to help the family finances. Married at 21, with her two sons Richard and Simon being born in the following 3 years, she fitted in care of her young children by starting up a play group and then providing bed and breakfast for tourists in her seaside home. The marriage eventually ended in divorce and Sara needed to find an occupation that would be suitable for her sch ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Wood (writer)
Sarah "Sally" Sayward Barrell Keating Wood (October 1, 1759 – January 6, 1855) is considered the first American female writer of gothic fiction. She lived more than nine decades, authored four novels and one collection of tales, and was renowned as Maine's first novelist. Wood was an author of gothic novels who wrote under the pen name "A Lady of Massachusetts". After Maine became a state in 1820, she changed her pen name to "A Lady of Maine." To her readers, however, she was better known as Madame Wood. During Wood's extended period of widowhood, she wrote four novels and gained popularity in New England. Life Wood was born in York, Maine, the first daughter of Sarah Sayward Barrell and the British army officer Nathaniel Barrell, but was heavily influenced by her wealthy grandfather, Judge Jonathan Sayward. She grew up at the Barrell Homestead, a substantial building still standing. On October 23, 1778 she married Richard Keating, who died of a fever five years la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Wood (businesswoman)
Sarah Florence Wood (born 1973) is a British businesswoman. She is the co-founder of video advertising platform Unruly and received an OBE for services to innovation and technology. Early life and education Wood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England where she lived until the age of ten before moving close to Brighton. Wood graduated from Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in American literature. Career From 2002 to 2004 Wood worked as a fundraising and development officer The Old Vic theatre in London. From 2004 to 2005, she was a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sussex. In 2006, Wood co-founded Unruly, a global video advertising marketplace, with Scott Button and Matt Cooker. In 2015 Wood and her co-founders sold Unruly to American media and publishing company News Corp. In 2018, Wood was appointed a non-executive board member for global lifestyle clothing brand Superdry. additionally, She has served as a j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disappearance Of Sara Ann Wood
Sara Anne Wood (March 4, 1981 – disappeared August 18, 1993) was a twelve-year-old American girl who disappeared while riding her bicycle home from Norwich Corners Church in Sauquoit, New York. She is believed to have been abducted less than half a mile from her own home by convicted child killer Lewis Stephen Lent Jr. Lent later pleaded guilty to both Sara's abduction and murder and that of a twelve-year-old boy named James Bernardo, whom he had murdered in 1990. He received a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for Bernardo's murder, and a sentence of 25 years' imprisonment to life for Sara's abduction and murder. Sara's abduction and murder ultimately inspired numerous initiatives by both law enforcement and the public within and around New York to raise public vigilance of the issues regarding missing children and child safety to prevent child abduction and sexual exploitation. Her family also established the Sara Anne Wood Rescue Center, which ultimately became a N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |