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“... He plays jazz clarinet at Michael’s Pub, and rarely misses a game of the New York Knicks. Marion Meade’s new biography is judicious and independent-minded on all the important issues, even-handed without being bland. She hasn’t spoken to Allen – or he hasn’t spoken to her – but she has spoken to everyone who would talk to her about ...”

“... for amusement – the biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd and one of Dorothy Parker by Marion Meade. In Holroyd’s book, I was most struck by some portraits – reproduced in full colour – that had been done of Strachey; there’s one by Simon Bussy, drawn in 1904 (the year of Isherwood’s birth); there’s one by Henry Lamb, painted in ...”

“... by an unloved stepmother (Henry’s ‘second Christian schoolteacher’, Parker’s biographer Marion Meade wryly notes). Dottie was a sickly child and, perhaps because of this, her formal education ended abruptly when she was just fourteen. When her father died six years later, there wasn’t much left of the family fortune. Parker’s ...”