John Osborne: A Patriot for Us

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Chatto & Windus, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 528 pages
John Osborne, original angry young man, defined England in many controversial ways. As iconoclastic as Shaw or Wilde, he changed the face of modern British theatre. This authorized but intimate and informal biography defines Osborne's contradictory genius and shows beneath it the hopelessly romantic English melancholic.

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The Hurst
1
A Patriot for
13
Every Day is Mothers Day to Me
31
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

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.

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