And God Created Burton: The Biography of Richard Burton

Rubython, Tom

ISBN 10: 099061994X / ISBN 13: 9780990619949

Verlag: The Myrtle Press, 2018

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: And God Created Burton: The Biography of Richard Burton
• Verlag: The Myrtle Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 099061994X
• ISBN-13: 9780990619949
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

And God Created Burton is the first complete biography of Richard Burton, a welsh miner who conquered Hollywood. The biography examines every facet of Burton's life and it is the tale of a unique actor whose prowess uniquely spanned theatre, film and television.

He was an extraordinary man, who had three fathers, three mothers, seven brothers, six sisters and four wives, and loved them all. His achievements were considered all the greater as they were accomplished in the era of such great British actors as Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud as well as great American stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable and Cary Grant. But he could have achieved even more if it had not been for his addiction to alcohol which stayed with him right to the end of his days, eventually killing him and tarnishing an otherwise extraordinary career.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

And God Created Burton is Tom Rubython's first biography of an actor. He wanted to make sure that he wrote a complete biography that covered every facet of the actor's life as well as all of his music. Rubython is a former magazine and newspaper editor spanning the worlds of sport and business. For over 30 years he worked in business magazines editing, amongst others, BusinessAge, EuroBusiness and Spectator Business. Then he moved to sport, editing F1 Magazine, BusinessF1 and SportsPro before becoming a full-time biography writer. He wrote his first book in 1995, and there have been more than 20 since. He is best known for his motor racing biographies including Life of Senna, which has sold more than 250,000 copies across the world, and Shunt, the story of James Hunt, which has sold more than 70,000 copies. More recently, he also wrote White Music, the story of the life of Barry White, and Boy Plunger, the biography of legendary share trader Jesse Livermore.

Rubython specialises in non-fiction storytelling and is passionate and methodical about the process of writing and researching the definitive biography. He starts with a determination to tell the full story of a person's life, emphasising what is important and de-emphasising what is not, the two skills he believes are the crucial tools of any biographer.