ISBN: 1854599437 9781854599438

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts

Page count: 437

Tynan's profiles are models of the genre, an inspiration for today's journalists and critics. The 50 profiles in this collection, originally published between 1943 and 1979, provide a veritable Who's Who of arts and letters, including Katharine Hepburn, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Miles Davis, W.C. Fields, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Tom Stoppard, and Greta Garbo.