Biography EssayAuthor of twenty-nine novels, which have been translated into nearly two dozen languages and which have sold more than twenty million copies, Dick Francis is unequaled at making horse r...
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Mystery writing powerhouse Dick Francis first came to the public eye as a victim in one of the most unusual sports mishaps of the century. The incident happened just after Francis, then a jockey, and ...
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Raised in a family of jockeys, Dick Francis rode professionally for ten years, became Champion Jockey in 1954 and nearly won the Grand National on the Queen Mother's horse, Devon Loch. Mystery still s...
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[This entry was updated by Gina Macdonald (Loyola University) from her entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 107-127.]Author of thirty-six novels, which have bee...
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The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Ga...
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In her half-century-plus in Manhattan, Pat Buckley has been known as a socialite, a fashion icon, a lady who lunches, a social X-ray, a grande dame, a superb hostess and the woman behind the man be...
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Dick Francis
Dick Francis
Dick Francis
Two-Faced Woman? The Glory of Garbo
