Sarah Tomerlin Lee

Sarah Tomerlin Lee (1910–2001) was an American magazine editor and author, retail executive, and interior designer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon woman's college and joined Bonwit Teller as a copywriter after college. She subsequently worked at Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, before moving on to Margaret Hockaday's advertising agency, and Lord & Taylor before succeeding Elizabeth Gordon at House Beautiful in 1964. Lee was responsible for the design of over forty hotels and inns in the United States.