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Article: Tom Stoppard and his First Biographer.(Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard)(Book Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard. Ira Nadel. Methuen. [pounds sterling]25.00. 621 pages. ISBN 0-413-73050-6.
Tom Stoppard is arguably the world's greatest living playwright and surely there has never been a better time to publish the first full-length biography of this extraordinary writer. On July 3rd this year, Stoppard celebrated his sixty-fifth birthday. This after he has achieved a knighthood (1997), an Oscar for his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love (1999), and the most prestigious British accolade of all for a writer, the Order of Merit (2000). He is also the first living foreign playwright ever to have a play performed at the Comedie Francaise with his ...