__NOTOC__ Lesley Cunliffe (''née'' Hume; 21 May 1945 – 28 March 1997), also Lesley Hume Cunliffe, was an American journalist and writer.

Biography

Cunliffe was born Lesley Hume in

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in 1945, the daughter of Patricia Spooner and Robert Hume, an air force officer. Her career in journalism started working in television as assistant to reporter Gabe Pressman of

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. After relocating to

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she was asked to become an editor for

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. She collaborated with Craig Brown on articles, some of which resulted in books: ''The Dirty Bits'' (1981) and ''The Book of Royal Lists'' (1983). During that period Cunliff also wrote other works, notably ''My passport to France'' (1985). She held several editorial positions at

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and the American- and English Vogue before becoming a freelance journalist for

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and

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Personal

In 1971 Lesley married British scholar

Marcus Cunliffe Marcus Falkner Cunliffe (1922–1990) was a British scholar who specialized in cultural and military American Studies. He was particularly interested in comparing how Europeans viewed Americans and how Americans viewed Europeans.It was in the US ...

. They separated in 1979. After the divorce she dated

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, a fellow journalist. Lesley Cunliffe was well liked because of her 'joie de vivre'. According to Mary Killen who wrote her biography in

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: She died in 1997 of stomach cancer at the age of 51.

Publications

* 1975 – ''Burke's Presidential families of the United States of America'' (

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, ) * 1981 – ''The Dirty Bits'' (Deutsch, ) * 1983 – ''The Book of Royal Lists'' (

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, ) * 1985 – ''My Passport to France'' (

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, ) * 1986 – ''Great Royal Disasters'' (

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, ) * 1990 – ''The Book of Royal Trivia'' (Bounty Books, )

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cunliffe, Lesley 1945 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American women journalists Deaths from stomach cancer in England American magazine editors American women magazine editors The Sunday Times people 20th-century American journalists