Thanks Rick. I think I want to get around to An Imperfect Life. I just
bought a novel, though: the Shipping News. The character Quolye interests
me, played by Kevin Spacey in the movie.

Ron Houssaye

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From: Rickard A. Parker <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Eliot biographies


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> Erwin Welsch wrote:
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> > With that caveat, the closest satisfactory biographies are the books
> > by Peter Ackroyd (TSE: A Life) and Lyndal Gordon's Eliot's Early Years
> > 1977, Eliot's New Life 1988, and T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life 1999.
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> Just get Gordon's "T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life" and skip her earlier
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> books as they are incorporated into "Imperfect Life."
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> Two biographies to put down on the bottom of the list (not to say not
> to read them) are:
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> T.S. Matthews, "Great Tom"
> Robert Sencourt, "T.S. Eliot: A Memoir"
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> Regards,
> Rick Parker
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