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Guinness Backstage

From the January 2005 Print Edition

Alec Guinness: The Authorized Biography by Piers Paul Read Simon & Schuster, 624 pp. $30. Apropos biography, Samuel Johnson once said that “the business of the biographer is to pass lightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness” in order “to lead . . . . Continue Reading »