WHAT BOOK would biographer Hugo Vickers take to a desert island?
…are you reading now? For a long time I was a Proustian who had never read Proust, although I first read about him when I was 16 — pronouncing him ‘Prowst’ as opposed to ‘Proost’ — in connection with Gladys Deacon, the subject of my latest biography, of whom he was an admirer. I went … Read more