Sally Vanessa Beauman (25 July 1944 – 7 July 2016) was an English journalist and writer, author of eight widely translated and best-selling novels. She was the first recipient of the Catherine Pakenham Award in 1970 for journalism, and at the age of 24 edited Queen Magazine, also becoming the arts editor of The Sunday Telegraph Magazine. She then began to write fiction, initially writing a series of nine romance novels for Mills & Boon under the pseudonym Vanessa James. She received a record-breaking advance for her first novel, Destiny, which became an international best-seller. Her novel The Visitors (2014) concerns the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, the subterfuge that attended it, and the political turmoil it caused Less