She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.
Why? Curiosity, “general impatience and all-around quirkiness.” Her first book (which proceeds chronologically) is a visual memoir of her life and musical career.
He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” influenced German culture and policymaking.
A prolific journalist and author, he ignited an uproar with a less-than-flattering portrait of Charles and Diana’s marriage. “The most reviled man in Britain,” one newspaper called him.