Sue Carswell

Mar. 15, 2025

Title:Researcher-WriterEducation:University of Vermont

Title:Researcher-Writer

Education:University of Vermont

Sue Carswell started at PEOPLE in the 1990s, and left in 1994 to be a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, an executive editor at Crown Publishers, a launch editor at the Oprah mag, a story producer at GMA, a researcher at Vanity Fair, and returned to PEOPLE in 2019.

Sue Carswell started at PEOPLE in the 1990s where her first reporting assignment was on a woman who had a leech farm. She did Samuel L. Jackson’s first interview ever for “Jungle Fever.” Carswell left PEOPLE in 1994 and became a senior editor at Simon & Schuster where she acquired numerous celebrity NYT bestsellers. She then became an executive editor at Crown (Random House) where she edited a mega selling book on The Spice Girls. Carswell was on the launch team of the Oprah mag, and then a story producer at GMA, and finally a researcher at Vanity Fair, and returned to PEOPLE in 2019. She has written a memoir about her family’s time living on the grounds of an orphanage, and ghostwritten seven celebrity memoirs. On the side, Carswell is a dog-sitter who treats her furry charges much like they are a mob boss’s only child.

source: people.com