Lady Elizabeth Longford (who died in 2002) is revered in Britain as one of the country’s greatest historical biographers. Despite the grand Anglo-Irish title and the glorious ancestry that could be traced back to England’s greatest general, the Duke of Wellington, Fraser’s parents were committed socialists and _WalmartAd_Catholics. They were also extraordinarily talented and charismatic individuals. She was born in 1932, the oldest of eight children of the earl and countess of Longford. Long before she met Pinter, Fraser was a glittering member of the London literati. Unconsciously, perhaps, Fraser reveals more about what Pinter saw in her than what she saw in him.Ĭritics have always been as fascinated with Fraser herself as with her literary output. In contrast to the serious, scholarly mien that cloaks her usual nonfiction, this book is rich with poetry and pathos. However, her 24th book, Must You Go?, a loving memoir of her life with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, is her greatest yet. Lady Antonia Fraser-Pinter is the author of 13 works of nonfiction and 10 novels. The bestselling historian Antonia Fraser speaks to Amanda Foreman about her new memoir, Must You Go?, what she loved about Harold Pinter, and her life as a writer.
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She had numerous lovers – enjoying, she said, being “ravaged by romances”. In the winter of 1950, the 47-year-old Pincus met Margaret Sanger, introduced in the first line of Eig’s book as “an old woman who loved sex and had spent 40 years seeking a way to make it better” her friend Mabel Dodge Luhan described her as “a propagandist for the joys of the flesh”. With his bristling moustache and uncombed hair, the chain-smoking biologist resembled “a cross between Albert Einstein and Groucho Marx”. He was an expert in mammalian reproduction, famous for having created a test-tube rabbit, which saw him vilified in the press as a new Frankenstein. 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Momofuku's popularity continued to grow with Chang opening new locations across the U.S. Momofuku's unpretentious air and great-tasting simple staples - ramen bowls and pork buns - earned it rave reviews, culinary awards and before long, Chang had a cult following. After failing to find a job after graduating, he convinced his father to loan him money to open a restaurant. Growing up in Virginia, the son of Korean immigrant parents, Chang struggled with feelings of abandonment, isolation and loneliness throughout his childhood. In this inspiring, honest and heartfelt memoir, Chang shares the extraordinary story of his culinary coming-of-age. In 2018, he was the owner and chef of his own restaurant empire, with 15 locations from New York to Australia, the star of his own hit Netflix show and podcast, was named one of the most influential people of the 21st century and had a following of over 1.2 million. 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He details the settlement's changing name, its growing population, and his racist views of the native Zambians. In the novel's first chapter, Percy details some of his encounters as an early settler in The Old Drift, a settlement near Victoria Falls. Clark, who is based on a real man from Cambridge, England, who moved to Zambia (then Rhodesia) in the early 20th century as one of Europe's many colonists across the African continent. These families are intertwined by the actions of the novel's first narrator, Percy M. The novel is a saga that follows three families: one Zambian, one Italian, and one Indian. It won the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award as well as the Arthur C. Set in Rhodesia/ Zambia, it is Serpell's debut novel and follows the lives of three interwoven families in three generations. The Old Drift is a 2019 historical fiction and Science fiction novel by Zambian author Namwali Serpell. Within the novel’s first sentence, two subtle and seemingly minor translation decisions have the power to change the way we read everything that follows. So why do the pros keep getting it wrong? For the modern American reader, few lines in French literature are as famous as the opening of Albert Camus’s “L’Étranger”: “ Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.” Nitty-gritty tense issues aside, the first sentence of “The Stranger” is so elementary that even a schoolboy with a base knowledge of French could adequately translate it. |
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