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'''Sara Diane Wheeler''' {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FRSL}} (born 20 March 1961) is an English travel author and [[biographer]], noted for her accounts of polar regions.
== Biography ==
Sara Wheeler was brought up in [[Bristol]], England, and studied Classics and Modern Languages at [[Brasenose College]], [[University of Oxford]]. After writing about her travels on the Greek island of [[Euboea]] and in [[Chile]], she was accepted by the [[US National Science Foundation]] as their first female writer-in-residence at the [[South Pole]], and spent seven months in [[Antarctica]].
In her resultant book ''Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica'', she mentioned sleeping in the captain’s bunk in [[Scott's Hut]].<ref name=Wheeler>{{cite book|last=Wheeler|first=Sara|title=Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica|year=1997|page=297}}</ref> Whilst in Antarctica she read ''[[The Worst Journey in the World]]'', an account of the [[Terra Nova Expedition]], and she later wrote a [[biography]] of its author, [[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/04/biography.features1 | title=The nice man cometh Sara Wheeler brings her Antarctic experience to bear on her biography of the reserved but passionate polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard | work=The Observer | date=4 November 2001 | accessdate=22 August 2012 | author=Lucy Moore}}</ref>
In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows/W|title=All Fellows:W|publisher=Royal Society of Literature|accessdate=19 February 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312202651/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows/W|archivedate=12 March 2010}}</ref> From 2005 to 2009 she served as Trustee of the [[London Library]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/images/PDFs/LLAnnualReport2009-2010.pdf|title=The London Library and The London Library Trust Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2009–2010|publisher=The London Library|accessdate=19 February 2012}}</ref>
She was frequently abroad for two years, travelled to Russia, Alaska, Greenland, Canada and North Norway to write her book ''The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic''. A [[journalist]] at the ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' in the UK called it a "snowstorm of historical, geographical and anthropological facts".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6227428/The-Magnetic-North-Notes-from-the-Arctic-Circle-by-Sara-Wheeler-review.html | title=The Magnetic North – Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler: review |work=The Telegraph | date=26 September 2009 | accessdate=22 August 2012 | author=Gill Hornby}}</ref>
In a 2012 [[BBC Radio 4]] series: ''To Strive and Seek'', she told the personal stories of five various members of the [[Terra Nova Expedition]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dqvp|title=BBC Radio 4 Programmes – To Strive and Seek|publisher=[[BBC Online]]|accessdate=19 February 2012}}</ref>
''O My America!: Second Acts in a New World'' records the lives of women who travelled to America in the first half of the 19th century: [[Fanny Trollope]], [[Fanny Kemble]], [[Harriet Martineau]], [[Rebecca Burlend]], [[Isabella Bird]], and [[Catherine Hubback]], and the author's travels in pursuit of them.<ref name=Sattin>{{cite web|last=Sattin|first=Anthony|title=O My America! by Sara Wheeler| url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/8857121/another-bite-of-the-cherry/|work=The Spectator|accessdate=16 March 2013}}</ref>
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