Английская Википедия:Anne Edwards

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Anne Edwards (August 20, 1927 – January 20, 2024) was an American writer best known for her biographies, including those of celebrities such as Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and royalty including Matriarch Queen Mary of Teck, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana and Countess Sonya Tolstoy.

Life and career

Anne Edwards was born in Port Chester, New York, on August 20, 1927. A child performer on stage and radio, she began her writing career as a junior writer at MGM in 1944 and became a noted Hollywood screenwriter and television writer in the late 1940s and early 1950s during which time she attended UCLA and SMU. She lived in the UK and Europe from the mid-1950s until 1972. After returning to the United States in 1973, she lived in Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut before returning to Beverly Hills, California, where she resided until the end of her life.

Her early film credits include Quantez starring Fred MacMurray and Dorothy Malone; A Question of Adultery starring Julie London and Anthony Steele; and co-writing the first draft of the screenplay for the film Funny Girl (1968) starring Barbra Streisand. She wrote her first novel, the best-selling The Survivors, in 1968 and subsequently wrote eight novels, sixteen biographies, three children's books, two memoirs (one with her late husband—composer-musicologist-pianist Stephen Citron) and an autobiography. Her biography of Ronald Reagan -- Early Reagan: The Rise to Power -- was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Edwards was a past president of the Authors Guild and served on its board of directors. Her collection of literary manuscripts, papers, and related materials is now part of the Special Collections Department of the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA, where she has taught writing.

In the mid-1970s, Edwards was hired by the Zanuck-Brown Company to write a story that could be adapted as a film sequel to Gone with the Wind. She produced a meticulously researched novel, which in the end was not used for the sequel and was itself never published. It was through working on this novel that she decided to write her biography of Margaret Mitchell.

In an interview for Publishers Weekly, Edwards said, "An idea hits me, then I develop the story or, in the case of a biography, think of a person who exemplifies that theme. Vivien [Leigh], Judy [Garland] and Sonya [Tolstoy] were vastly interesting people and symbolic of certain things: Judy, the exploitation of a woman; Vivien, somebody who suffered from manic-depression; Sonya, an intelligent woman subjugated to a man who used her, drained her, made a villain of her."

Edwards died in Beverly Hills, California, on January 20, 2024, at the age of 96.

Bibliography

Biographies

• Judy Garland: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
• Vivien Leigh: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1977)
• Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
• Road to Tara: Life of Margaret Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
• Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor (William Morrow and Company, 1984)
• A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn (Morrow, 1985)
• The DeMilles: An American Family (Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
• Shirley Temple: American Princess (Morrow, 1988)
• Early Reagan: The Rise to Power (Morrow, 1990)
• Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret (Morrow, 1990)
• The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal/Years of Grace (Morrow, 1992)
• Throne of Gold: The Lives of the Aga Khans (Morrow, 1995)
• Streisand: A Biography (Little, Brown, 1997)
• " Diana: The Life She Led " (St. Martin's Press, 1999)
• Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography (St. Martin's Press, 2001)
• The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage (St. Martin's Press, 2003)

Novels

• The Survivors (Holt Rinehart Winston, 1968)
• Miklos Alexandrovitch Is Missing (Coward-McCann, 1970)
• Shadow Of A Lion (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971)
• Haunted Summer (Bantam Books, 1974)
• The Hesitant Heart (Random House, 1974)
• Child of Night (Random House, 1975)
• Wallis: The Novel (Morrow, 1991)
• La Divina (Mandarin Publishing, 1996)

Autobiography

• The Inn and Us (Random House, 1976), co-authored with husband Stephen Citron
• "Scarlett and Me" (The Marietta Gone with the Wind Museum, 2011)
• Leaving Home (Scarecrow Press, 2012)

Children's books

• P. T. Barnum (Putnam, 1977)
• The Great Houdini (Putnam, 1977)
• A Child's Bible (Topeka Bindery, 1987), co-authored with Shirley Steen

Further reading

• Шаблон:Cite news

External links

• The Reagans Anne Edwards at C-SPAN (talking about her biography, The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage)
• Шаблон:Internet Archive author