Andrew Wilson (9) (1967–)
Autore di Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
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Sull'Autore
Andrew Wilson has written for numerous British publications, including the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Daily Telegraph, and the Observer. His critically acclaimed biography of Patricia Highsmith, Beautiful Shadow, won the Edgar Award, and he is the author of a novel, The Lying mostra altro Tongue. mostra meno
Serie
Opere di Andrew Wilson
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Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Adamson, E. V. (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1967
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England
- Istruzione
- City University, London (post-graduate diploma in periodical journalism)
- Agente
- Clare Alexander
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 1,474
- Popolarità
- #17,429
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 61
- ISBN
- 368
- Lingue
- 12
This was a bit of a different look at the story of the Titanic. I quite liked it! Some of the stories were of first class passengers I knew a bit about or at least remember hearing their names (Madeleine Astor, John Jacob Astor’s young, new, pregnant wife; Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife, Lady Duff Gordon); also J. Bruce Ismay, a White Star official. Many of the stories were people I hadn’t heard about before. Probably the one I’ll remember best is Jack Thayer, 17 years old and was going down with the ship when he jumped, managed to clear the ship, and be rescued. Dorothy Gibson was a silent screen actress on the Titanic who made it out. There were two little boys who were on the ship with their father; he got them in a lifeboat and they never saw him again… turns out the father had kidnapped them from their mother in France!
Ismay, of course, was on trial after the Titanic sunk. The Duff Gordons were, as well, it being alleged that they bribed the rowers of their lifeboat to not go back to see if they could help anyone. Madeleine Astor married and divorced two more times (though remarrying caused her to lose all wealth left to her by John Jacob). A number of people committed suicide (not necessarily right away) and many just wouldn’t talk of the Titanic afterward.… (altro)