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Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography

Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography

by HugoVickers (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $18.64

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    Paperback 1993

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Synopsis

Hugo Vickers became Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer at Beaton's own request, and was given access to voluminous unpublished material. Yet because Beaton died two days after commissioning his new biographer, Vickers was subject to none of the usual restrictions. His book was an instant number one best-seller and soon became indispensable to anyone interested in the artistic and social world of the twentieth century. Hugo Vickers explores the contradictions of a man addicted to fame, yet riddled with self-doubt, and capable of musing: 'It is not the most interesting life, to be always happy.' First published in 1985. This is the seventh edition.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 688
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 18 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 184212613X
ISBN 13: 9781842126134
Book Overview: 'A book as rich, dense, thick and tasty as a fruitcake...lovers of plutography - and there must be millions of them - will take their time and swallow every last crumb...An enormous, unsparing, inch-by-inch trench-warfare chronicle of an English snob's progress through the twentieth century' Tom Wolfe, New York Times Illustrated with many unique contemporary photographs A scintillating survey of English social life from the 1920s to the 1970s Re-issued to coincide with the publication of the unexpurgated Beaton Diaries in paperback

Author Bio
Hugo Vickers' first biography, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, was described by Time as 'sensitive, highly intelligent.' Sir Cecil Beaton read it in 1979 and invited Vickers to be his authorised biographer. Beaton died two days after Vickers began work on the book, an enterprise which took five years to complete.