Sarah Bartlett Churchwell (born May 27, 1970) is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
She is the director of the Being Human festival and the author of three books: The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe; Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby; and Behold America: A History of America First and the American Dream.
Her books include The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004); and Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby (2013) about F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[4][5] Her television appearances include on Newsnight, Question Time, The Review Show, and The Sharp End with Clive Anderson.
She has contributed to many documentaries including BBC2’s Novels that Shaped Our World (2019), Icons, with Kathleen Turner (2019), Unfinished Masterpieces (2014), Arena’s T. S. Eliot, The Rules of Film Noir, and Great Poets: In Their Own Words, and the feature film Love, Marilyn (d: Liz Garbus, 2012).