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Lifers - the Rise and Rise of the Literary Biographer

Clashes between biographers and their subjects are celebrated tonight in a documentary featuring the last filmed interview with Sir Kingsley Amis. The intensely private JD Salinger emerged from a quarter century of silence to denounce a biographer's work, while John le Carre's successfully suppressed an authorised biography. Interviewees include Martin Amis, Richard Holmes and Germaine Greer.

English
  • Originally Aired March 9, 1996
  • Network BBC Two
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