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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

Written by Kate Andersen Brower

Narrated by Eleanor Caudill

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The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.

Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.

Editor's Note

The woman behind the icon…

You may think you know Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor, but besides her beauty and glamor and behind her eight marriages and shocking headlines was a woman who unapologetically knew her own worth — and the worth of those in need. In the very first authorized biography of Taylor’s life, Brower (“Exploring the White House,” “First Women”) draws on archived letters and photos plus interviews with friends and family to explore the real Taylor, including her work in HIV/AIDS research, prevention, and advocacy.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins UK Audio
Release dateDec 8, 2022
ISBN9780008435851
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Author

Kate Andersen Brower

Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence, First Women—also a New York Times bestseller—and First in Line. She is a CNN contributor who covered the Obama White House for Bloomberg News and is a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. She lives outside Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three young children.

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