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Dennis Potter: A Biography: The Authorised Biography

Dennis Potter: A Biography: The Authorised Biography

by HumphreyCarpenter (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $5.96

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    Hardcover 1998

    $3.24
Synopsis

Based on interviews with associates and on access to personal archives, including many unused television and film scripts, this is a biography of the playwright, Dennis Potter, author of controversial television series such as "Pennies from Heaven", "The Singing Detective" and "Blackeyes".

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 688
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 06 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0571197213
ISBN 13: 9780571197217

Author Bio
Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician, he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band, Vile Bodies, which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005.