Sandy Fawkes
Sandy Fawkes was a British journalist.Biography
Fawkes studied at Camberwell School of Art under John Minton. In 1949, she married Wally Fawkes, author of the cartoon strip Flook. In the 1960s she was a fashion editor for the Daily Sketch, and then in the 1970s, feature writer for the Daily Express.
In 1974, she had a 3-day affair with a man who turned out to be the serial killer Paul Knowles, and wrote a best selling book, Killing Time, later republished as Natural Born Killer.
She also ghostwrote Christine Keeler's autobiography, Nothing But.
Her tutor John Minton introduced her to Soho's drinking culture and she became a denizen of Soho’s pubs and drinking clubs, in particular The French House, the Coach & Horses and The Colony Room Club. As a result, she appears several times in the Private Eye cartoon strip The Regulars by Michael Heath and had a small part in John Maybury's film .
