Susan Williams

Dr Susan Williams is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her book COLOUR BAR, the story of Botswana’s founding President, was made into the major 2016 film A UNITED KINGDOM, directed by Amma Asante and starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike. Her book WHO KILLED HAMMARSKJÖLD? triggered a new UN investigation in 2015 into the death of the UN Secretary General; the investigation is ongoing into 2022. SPIES IN THE CONGO spotlights the link between US espionage in the Congo and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. A PEOPLE'S KING presents an original perspective on the abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson.

Susan Williams lives in London.