Dirk Bogarde: The authorised biography Book

Dirk Bogarde was a Rank film contract actor who made it into the big-time, working with top European directors such as Visconti (Death in Venice) as well as in Hollywood. Then in the 1980s he carved a new career for himself, first as a bestselling biographer (Postilion Struck by Lightning etc) and then as a bestselling novelist. An extremely private man, he refused to answer questions about his sexual preferences and at one point left England to live in France with a male partner rather than submit himself any longer to the attentions of the British press. He wrote copious letters and journals and his family have decided to hand over these and other personal papers to John Coldstream, former Literary Editor of the Daily Telegraph, who knew Bogarde well. The biography will be published to coincide with the fifth anniversary of his death.Read More