The Resource Sybille Bedford : a life, Selina Hastings
Sybille Bedford : a life, Selina Hastings
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- Summary
- "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic family history. Born just outside Berlin, she lived alternately in Baden, the south of France, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and London. As an adolescent she was mentored by Aldous Huxley . . . Martha Gellhorn convinced her to write her first novel, A Legacy, which would finally be published in 1956 . . . in the 1960s she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials including that of Auschwitz officials, and Jack Ruby's for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . . . she was an important figure in the lesbian community in Europe and America . . . and though she often found herself in dire financial straits, her life was just as often underwritten by devoted men or her women lovers. She was possessed of a fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, compassion, and unstinting engagement with all the vagaries and variety of life. And Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781101947913
- Label
- Sybille Bedford : a life
- Title
- Sybille Bedford
- Title remainder
- a life
- Statement of responsibility
- Selina Hastings
- Subject
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- 1900-1999
- trueAuthors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006
- Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006
- Biographies
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Women authors, English
- trueWomen authors, English -- 20th century
- trueWomen authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- trueAuthors -- 20th century
- trueAuthors, English -- 20th century
- Authors, English
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "From the celebrated biographer of Nancy Mitford, and Evelyn Waugh: a full and fascinating biography--the very first--of the long-admired and universally-acclaimed English writer. When Sybille Bedford died in 2006 at the age of 94, she had written ten books, including four novels and a biography of Aldous Huxley. Her novels--the last of which was shortlisted for the Booker--all fictionalized her extraordinarily colorful, peripatetic life and dramatic family history. Born just outside Berlin, she lived alternately in Baden, the south of France, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and London. As an adolescent she was mentored by Aldous Huxley . . . Martha Gellhorn convinced her to write her first novel, A Legacy, which would finally be published in 1956 . . . in the 1960s she wrote for magazines and newspapers, covering nearly 100 trials including that of Auschwitz officials, and Jack Ruby's for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . . . she was an important figure in the lesbian community in Europe and America . . . and though she often found herself in dire financial straits, her life was just as often underwritten by devoted men or her women lovers. She was possessed of a fierce intelligence, wit, curiosity, compassion, and unstinting engagement with all the vagaries and variety of life. And Selina Hastings has brilliantly captured the woman and the writer in all the richness of her character and achievements"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10945468
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hastings, Selina
- Dewey number
- 823/.914
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6052.E3112
- LC item number
- Z68 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Bedford, Sybille
- Authors, English
- Women authors, English
- Bedford, Sybille
- Authors, English
- Women authors, English
- Label
- Sybille Bedford : a life, Selina Hastings
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1154117730
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781101947913
- Lccn
- 2020019903
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1154117730
- Label
- Sybille Bedford : a life, Selina Hastings
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1154117730
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781101947913
- Lccn
- 2020019903
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1154117730
Subject
- 1900-1999
- trueAuthors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006
- Bedford, Sybille, 1911-2006
- Biographies
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Women authors, English
- trueWomen authors, English -- 20th century
- trueWomen authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- trueAuthors -- 20th century
- trueAuthors, English -- 20th century
- Authors, English
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