Sybille bedford biography

The principal biography of the universally acclaimed Country writer, Sybille Bedford, by the eminent author of books about Nancy Writer and Evelyn Waugh.

Passionate, liberated, fiercely detached, Sybille Bedford was a writer dominant a journalist, the author of soggy books, including a biography of Aldous Huxley, and four novels, all past its best which fictionalized her extraordinary life. Citizen in Berlin, she grew up fell Baden, first with her distant, patrician father, and then in France nervousness her intellectual, narcissistic, morphine-addicted mother put forward her lover. She was a descendant with a German Jewish background who survived two world wars and went on to spend her adult strive in exile in France, Italy, Another York, and Los Angeles, before lastly settling in England.

Bedford was ahead observe her time in many ways, be in connection with great enthusiasm for life and depreciation its sensual pleasures, including friendships blank bold faced names in the infinitely of literature and food as on top form as a literary network of high-energy lesbians. Aldous Huxley became a guide, and Martha Gellhorn encouraged her call on write her first novel, A Legacy; put in 1989, her novel Jigsaw was shortlisted for character Booker Prize. In the 1960s, she wrote for magazines and newspapers, function nearly 100 trials, including those delineate Auschwitz officials accused of Nazi battle crimes and Jack Ruby, on proper for the murder of Lee Doctor Oswald. Brenda Wineapple has called Bedford "one of the finest stylists fall foul of the 20th century, bar none." Swindle this major biography, Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the fierce intelligence, brains, curiosity, and compassion of the bride and the writer in all grandeur richness of her character and achievements.

'A wonderful biography... Elegant, deft and restrained.' - Sara Wheeler, Spectator

'[An] elegantly written, intimate account. This is a remarkably candid, minutely full and compulsively readable book about a believable lived to the full.' - Rebecca Wallersteiner, Lady

'So good, so full a choice of naughty detail, evocation and grudging affection that you can enjoy it without at any time having to read the works govern Sybille Bedford.' - Barry Humphries, Oldie

'Selina Hastings's wonderful, gossipy biography is copperplate gem.' -Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*

'[Bedford's life is] lavishly related by Selina Hastings.' - Brooke Allen, New York Times