Sara Fitzgerald

Sara Fitzgerald is a retired journalist whose career included fifteen years as an editor and new media developer for the Washington Post. She is the author of the biography Elly Peterson: “Mother” of the Moderates, recognized as a Notable Book of 2012 by the Library of Michigan as well as by the Historical Society of Michigan. In 2020, she published Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX and The Poet’s Girl: A Novel of Emily Hale and T. S. Eliot. Fitzgerald’s essays about Hale have appeared in the Journal of the T. S. Eliot Society; the T. S. Eliot Studies Annual; Time Present, the newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society; and Exchanges, the newsletter of the T. S. Eliot Society (UK). She lives in the Washington, DC, area.