A longtime contributor to the Financial Times on topics such as sustainability, business, travel and lifestyle, Sarah Murray is the author of the upcoming Making An Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre, How We Dignify the Dead—both a “charming and informative” study of how different cultures mourn their dead, and a eulogy for her own father. In her earlier book, Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat, Murray satisfies a lifelong fascination with global cargo transport by examining the movement of food and the impact it has had on politics, economics and culture.

Sarah Murray began at the Financial Times in 1990, first in London and, since 2001, in New York as a contributing feature writer. She has lived and worked in Hong Kong as a journalist at the South China Morning Post, the region’s leading daily; in Vietnam, where she helped launch an English language magazine aimed at foreign investors called Vietnam Economic Times; and in South Africa, where she worked as a freelance writer. Her writing has appeared in many other publications including The New York Times, The Economist, The Huffington Post, Forbes.com, The Independent (UK), The Observer (UK), New Statesman, the Times Higher Educational Supplement (UK), The Guardian (UK), Museums Journal, Opera Now, Conde Nast Traveller (UK), Asian Art, and South Africa’s Business Day and Sunday Life. She is a regular speaker on radio and television and at conferences and literary events, including the Ubud Readers & Writers Festival in Bali, Indonesia and the UK’s Six Feet Under convention.

Born and brought up in Dorset, England, Sarah Murray went to school in Bath and gained her MA degree in history of art from Edinburgh University. She is an avid traveller and has visited Iran, Singapore, Togo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Benin, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tibet, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Mongolia, Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Denmark, Russia and the Czech Republic.