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Terence Blacker read English at Cambridge and worked in publishing before becoming a full-time writer during the 1980s. He has written four novels, including the acclaimed Kill Your Darlings, and is a successful writer of children's fiction. He currently writes a twice-weekly column for the Independent and is a regular broadcaster. He lives in Norfolk, where he plays the guitar and grows trees.
A startling and brilliant biography that reads like a Rake's Progress for the 21st century Daily Mail Once in a blue moon comes a biography that has the texture of life-as-it-is-lived, the usual province of fiction... With stealth and sympathy, the biographer has followed his subject's footsteps into all sorts of strange by-ways, most of them frightening or humiliating or forlorn -- Craig Brown Daily Telegraph Superb... it would be a brilliant picaresque novel, if it were not all true Independent on Sunday Utterly gripping... hilarious, heartbreaking -- India Knight Sunday Times 20070318 Sympathetic and extremely enjoyable Daily Telegraph 20070324
