Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex

ISBN-13: 9780747593799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Andrew Wilson

Opis

Harold Robbins, the godfather of the airport novel, changed the face of publishing with classics such as 'The Carpetbaggers', 'The Dream Merchants' and 'The Lonely Lady'. The world's first playboy writer, Robbins reportedly frittered away $50 million on fast cars, loose women and high living. This is the story of his extraordinary life.

Recenzje

'A fascinating portrait of a remarkable man' The Times

O autorze

Andrew Wilson is a novelist, biographer and journalist. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Biography (2004) and the LAMBDA Literary Award (2003) for Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. He was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Prize (2003) for the same book. His non-fiction books also include biographies of Sylvia Plath, Alexander McQueen, Harold Robbins and a group biography of the survivors of the Titanic. His first novel, The Lying Tongue, published in 2007, was shortlisted for the Jelf First Novel Award. He is the author of four novels which feature Agatha Christie as a detective. Writing under the pseudonym of E.V. Adamson, he is the author of the psychological thriller Five Strangers. He is also a creative writing mentor on the Gold Dust scheme and the new tutor on the Faber Academy crime course.