John Osborne

Informationen zum Autor Born in Manchester and educated at Oxford, John Heilpern wrote award-winning interviews for the Observer before becoming a Times columnist in New York. He has worked with Peter Hall at the National Theatre and with Michael Bennett on Broadway. He is the author of a classic book about the theatre, Conference of the Birds: The Story of Peter Brook in Africa , and of How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway - Writings on Theatre and Why it Matters . He now lives in Manhattan where he is drama critic of the New York Observer . Klappentext John Osborne (1929-1994) unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man changed the face of modern British theatre forever with Look Back in Anger. An actor turned playwright Osborne was married five times his private life generating a tumult and drama to match that of his work.This startlightly candid authorised but intimate and informal biography is the first to have access to Osborne's own notebooks and private letters which record for posterity his often anguished nature. It includes personal interviews with scores of his friends and enemies among them a bombshell of a confession from Osborne's alleged male lover and the first public comments from his estranged daughter Nolan who was thrown out of the family home at just sixteen. This is an essential unorthodox moving and extraordinarily frank portrait of the man the playwright and his era. Zusammenfassung John Osborne (1929-1994), unapologetic rebel and original Angry Young Man, changed the face of modern British theatre forever with Look Back in Anger.

Product details

• Authors: John Heilpern, Heilpern John
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2007
• EAN: 9780099275862
• ISBN: 978-0-09-927586-2
• No. of pages: 560
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, letters; biography; drama; look back in anger