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02862aam a22003978i 4500 001 1D53DDE8773711EBA1152D194AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210225010015 008 200507t20212021nyuaf b 001 0beng 010 $a 2020019903 020 $a 1101947918 020 $a 9781101947913 035 $a (OCoLC)1154117730 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JTH $d IFK $d OQX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d CLE $d BNG $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR6052.E3112 $b Z68 2020 082 00 $a 823/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Hastings, Selina, $e author. 245 10 $a Sybille Bedford : $b a life / $c Selina Hastings. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2021. 300 $a xii, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Bedford, Sybille, $d 1911-2006. 650 0 $a Authors, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women authors, English $y 20th century $v Biography. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015615.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021326.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630012821.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504014041.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210415010205.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210225010127.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1D53DDE8773711EBA1152D194AECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search