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John Osborne
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Compelling, groundbreaking and full of startling revelations, a dazzling, definitive biography of the man who changed the face of British theatre, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first performance of Look Back in Anger in May 1956.

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Born in Manchester and educated at Oxford, John Heilpern wrote award-winning interviews for the Observer before becoming a Times columnist in New York. He has worked with Peter Hall at the National Theatre and with Michael Bennett on Broadway. He is the author of a classic book about the theatre, Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa, and of How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway - Writings on Theatre and Why it Matters. He now lives in Manhattan where he is drama critic of the New York Observer.

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"Miraculous. . . . A model of what a literary biography ought to be. . . . The Osborne who emerges from these pages is a character of almost Shakespearean dimensions, grand as Falstaff, volatile as Hamlet, mad as Lear." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "A terrific story. . . . An appealing, rollicking portrait. . . . The best literary biography I have read in a long time." --Harold Evans, "The Wall Street Journal" "I cannot recall a biography that was so amusing and intense. . . . If there is going to be a better-written, more entertaining, or more sharply observed performance this year, I'll be mighty surprised." --Carl Rollyson, "The New York Sun"

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