Michael Billington has been theatre critic of the
Guardian since 1971 and of
Country Life since 1986. He is the author of biographies of Harold Pinter and Peggy Ashcroft, critical studies of Tom Stoppard and Alan Ayckbourn, of a celebration of Ken Dodd, a collection of reviews,
One Night Stands,
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945, which won the Theatre Book Prize 2008, and
The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present. He has also edited
Directors' Shakespeare: Twelfth Night and
Stage and Screen Lives selected from the
Dictionary of National Biography.
He frequently lectures and broadcasts on the arts, teaches drama for the University of Pennsylvania and is a Visiting Professor at King's College, London and an Honorary Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.
Michael Billington's engrossing biography examines Pinter's work in the context of his life. Through extended conversations with Pinter and interviews with his friends and colleagues, Billington creates a portrait of the man as well as the artist, from Pinter's Hackney childhood...
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