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Elizabeth Taylor

The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
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The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. This authorised biography reveals a complete portrait of the intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman behind the legend. From her rise to fame at age twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to command a million-dollar film salary, through her eight marriages and love affair with Richard Burton, to her battle with addiction and pioneering AIDS activism, the book draws on unseen photographs, private reflections, unpublished letters, diaries and interviews with 250 friends and family to tell her full story.
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The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

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The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life, and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.

Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile, and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts, as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780008435837

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 December 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: HarperCollins

Illustration: 50 col plates (16pp)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 39.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 512

About the Author

Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence, First Women - also a New York Times bestseller - and First in Line. She is a CNN contributor who covered the Obama White House for Bloomberg News and is a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three young children.

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