Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime

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In this book, David Pryce-Jones discusses a collection of works personally given to him by famous authors, including W.H. Auden, Saul Bellow, Bernard Berenson, and Isaiah Berlin, among others.

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Vivid sketches from a master of a vanished age, set in the brightest lights and darkest shadows of the twentieth century. Peter Stothard, author of Alexandria and The Last Assassin

This is an extraordinary work, unlike any other I can think of. Prompted by the books in his library, with their many personal associations, David Pryce-Jones considers a huge range of writers he has known. They include some of the most distinguished of the twentieth century: poets, novelists, critics, historians plus Hitlers sculptor and Stalins daughter. Some will say that Pryce-Jones has been a lucky man, leading a charmed life. But luck itself does not supply the sharp eye, fine memory, delicious humour and strong moral judgement that make this such a memorable book. Noel Malcolm, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford

In the course of his long life David Pryce-Jones has dined at many an exotic table and lingered in many a high-powered drawing room. Signatures is an ingenious amalgam of personal reminiscence and literary criticism. I was gripped from beginning to end. D.J. Taylor

Students of history, book lovers and conoisseurs of literary gossip have such a treat in store with David Pryce-Joness Signatures. It was bibliophilic cat-nip for me. I envy everyone now getting to read this funny, moving, unforgettable book for the first time. Douglas Murray, Bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds.

Author Bio

David Pryce-Joneswas born in Vienna in 1936 and studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford. His career has included spells teaching creative writing in Iowa and in California, as well as being a special correspondent for theDaily Telegraphcovering international assignments such as the Middle East wars of 1967 and 1973. He has written ten novels and twelve books of nonfiction, his most recent beingFault Lines. Since 1999, he has been a senior editor ofNational Review.