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Roger Lewis (born 26 February 1960) is a Welsh academic, biographer and journalist. Biography Lewis was born in Caerphilly, Glamorgan in 1960. He was raised in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, and educated at Bassaleg School in Newport. He then attended the University of St Andrews, graduating MA, then Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained the MLitt degree, both with first class honours. He became a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, in 1984. Lewis has contributed literary journalism to the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph. He has written biographies of Peter Sellers (1994), Charles Hawtrey (2001), Anthony Burgess (2003), and Laurence Olivier (2007). His book on Sellers was dramatized by HBO as The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Seasonal Suicide Notes (2009) chronicles five years of the author's life. It was followed up by a second volume of "dyspeptic musings", What am I Doing Here? My Years as Me, in 2012. Erotic Vagrancy, his massive joint biography of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, took him 13 years to complete, and was published to generally positive reviews in October 2023. Controversies Following the publication of his Burgess biography, Blake Morrison declared himself "appalled by Roger Lewis's 20-year quest to destroy Anthony Burgess". In defense, Lewis told Stephen Moss: "What I was trying to do with all my biographies was find a form that would suit the subject matter...Anthony Burgess was a great charlatan, so the book is full of all these mock-scholarly footnotes. I thought I'd pulled it off, and then the reviews came out and they were homicidal". Writing a book review for the Daily Mail in August 2011, Lewis expressed a dislike of the Welsh language, calling it an "appalling and moribund monkey language". Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards reported Lewis's comments to the police and to the Press Complaints Commission. In 2014 comments about lesbians Lewis made in a Spectator article led to publishers Biteback Publishing withdrawing an offer of a book deal. Personal life Lewis is married - to Anna, an educational psychologist - with three sons, and lives in Hastings, with a holiday apartment in Bad Ischl, Austria. He is a lover of good art and bullfighting. Books Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. London: Quercus. 2023. ISBN 978-0-857-38172-9. What Am I Still Doing Here? My Life as Me. London: Coronet. 2011. ISBN 978-1-444-70868-4. Growing Up with Comedians. London: Century. 2010. ISBN 978-1-84413-808-1. Seasonal Suicide Notes: My Life as it is Lived. London: Short Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1-907595-00-4. The Real Life of Laurence Olivier. London: Arrow Books. 2007. ISBN 978-0-09-951366-7. Anthony Burgess. London: Faber and Faber. 2003. ISBN 978-0-571-21721-2. Charles Hawtrey 1914–1988: The Man Who Was Private Widdle. London: Faber and Faber. 2002. ISBN 978-0-571-21089-3. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. London: Century. 1994. References External links www.telegraph.co.uk (subscription required) . Discover the Roger Lewis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Roger Lewis books.
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A Comic Vision of Sacred Kinship
Alan GriesingerFor this inquiry into sacred kinship, the author has taken for his text the verse from Genesis 2: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nost...
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The Last Word
Hanif Kureishi“Hanif Kureishi’s best novel since The Buddha of Suburbia” (The Independent, UK): a mischievous, wickedly funny, and intellectually deft story about a young biographer and the famo...
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Citizen Quinn
Gavin Daly & Ian KehoeCitizen Quinn tells the staggering story of the rise and fall of Ireland's richest man: Sean Quinn. A few years ago, Sean Quinn was ranked among the two hundred richest people in t...
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Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Alexander von HumboldtOne of the greatest nineteenthcentury scientistexplorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he...
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My World in Motion
Jo WhileyJo Whiley is someone millions of us recognise but very few of us know. Jo's a mother, sister, DJ, wife and musicindustry insider who throughout her career and in an age of fleetin...
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The Bank That Lived a Little
Philip AugarBased on unparalleled access to those involved, and told with compelling pace and drama, The Bank that Lived a Little describes three decades of boardroom intrigue at one of Britai...
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Big Pig, Little Pig
Jacqueline YallopAs heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week'A delightful and entertaining memoir' Woman and HomeWhen Jacqueline moves to southwest France with her husband, she embraces rural villag...
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Confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg & Roger LewisRobert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people. After he falls in with the mysterious an...
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Landscape with Figures
Richard JefferiesRichard Jefferies was the most imaginative and least conventional of nineteenthcentury observers of the natural world. Trekking across the English countryside, he recorded his resp...
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Out of the Blue
Christopher YatesThough an enthusiastic seafisher as a child, Chris Yates has concentrated on freshwater throughout his fishing life. In Out of the Blue he describes his return to the sea after hal...
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The Old Man and the Sand Eel
Will Millard'A wonderfully fluent account of how the strange magic of water and the beings that inhabit it can enchant and intoxicate' Chris YatesGrowing up on the Cambridgeshire Fens, Will Mi...
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Benjamin Britten
Igor Toronyi-LalicBenjamin Britten was one of the most important and unusual figures in twentiethcentury music. This is the perfect introduction to his many wonderful works and his fascinating, cont...
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The Major Works
C. Patrides & Thomas BrownSir Thomas Browne (160582) was a writer of breathtaking range and learning, whose works demonstrate a warm and humorous view of human nature. Religio Medici is a fascinating, witty...
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State North Dakota v. Timothy Roger Lewis
Supreme Court of North DakotaSAND, Justice. This matter ostensibly came before us in an effort to comply with Anders v. State of California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493, rehearing denied 388 U....