Background

Sarah Cockburn was born on the 27th of May, 1939 in London, United Kingdom, the daughter of the writer Claud Cockburn and Jean Ross. Her parents were well known in the arts.

Education

Sarah Cockburn attended Aberdeen University and St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

Career

At the beginning of her career in 1966, Sarah Cockburn was called to the Chancery Bar in London and practiced in Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn for some years before joining the legal department of Lloyd’s Bank trust division. She also was a lecturer in law at the University College of Wales.

As the author, Sarah wrote Thus Was Adonis Murdered in 1981. She also produced The Shortest Way to Hades in 1985 and The Sirens Sang of Murder in 1989. Her last book, The Sibyl in Her Grave was written in 2000. Cockburn was also the author of the unpublished play, The Madman's Advocate, which was never performed professionally but did receive readings in England and New York in the mid-1990s.

Achievements

• Sarah Cockburn is particularly known as the author of mystery books. Cockburn’s works have been translated into Swedish and Japanese. She received Anthony Award for best novel in 1989 for The Sirens Sang of Murder.

Works

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  • Thus Was Adonis Murdered

    (When her personal copy of the current Finance Act is foun...)

    1981
  • The Sirens Sang of Murder

    (Young barrister Michael Cantrip has skipped off to the Ch...)

    1989
  • The Shortest Way to Hades

    (It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes...)

    1984
  • The Sibyl in Her Grave

    (Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two frien...)

    2000

Connections

Sarah Cockburn was married.

Father:

Claud Cockburn

Claud Cockburn was a noted British radical journalist. In 1933 he founded a political journal called, The Week, which exposed people in the British ruling class who had sympathies for fascism, especially the Cliveden Set of pro-Nazi intriguers. He also covered the Spanish Civil War under the pseudonym, Frank Pitcairn, for the British Communist Party's newspaper, the Daily Worker.

Mother:

Jean Ross

Ross was widely acknowledged as Christopher Isherwood's model for Sally Bowles, the central figure in I Am a Camera and Cabaret .

Half-brother:

Alexander Claud Cockburn

Alexander Claud Cockburn was an Irish American journalist, who penned acerbic, provocative columns on cultural and political topics for a variety of publications, notably the left-leaning journals the Village Voice (1973–84) and The Nation (1984–2012), the conservative Wall Street Journal newspaper (1980–90), and the self-described "radical" online newsletter CounterPunch (1994–2012), which he co-edited.

Half-brother:

Andrew Cockburn

Andrew Cockburn was born on the 7th of January, 1947 in Willesden, London as Andrew Myles Cockburn. He is a producer, known for The Peacemaker, American Casino and World in Action.

Half-brother:

Patrick Oliver Cockburn

Patrick Oliver Cockburn is an Irish journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979 for the Financial Times and, presently, The Independent.