Stephen Fry is a national treasure.
Recognised as a near genius from an early age, there is little doubt that Stephen Fry has an awesome intellect.
Now best known as the quiz-master on the long-running comedy panel-show, QI, he is effortlessly erudite, and carries off being a brain box with all the charm of a character who has just escaped from a P. G. Wodehouse novel.
He is president of the mental-health charity Mind and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, though he could easily rank as a secular saint. The BBC’s Culture Show made him one of their top ten Living Icons and he has been voted the Most Intelligent Man on Television.
But beneath the suave exterior, there lies a tortured soul.
He ran into trouble prep school and was regularly caned for being a thief, a fantasist and a liar. Expelled from two public schools for chronic truancy, he was sent to a sixth-form college where he continued his career in crime. After absconding with a stolen credit card, he spent three months in jail.
He fled from the play Cell Mates three days into its West End run and turned up in Belgium. Later, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.
Nigel Cawthorne’s concise biography sheds light on Fry’s tumultuous early years, his relentless ambition and his rise to fame.
'A fascinating insight into a complex man.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.
Nigel Cawthorne is the author of some eighty books - and a major contributor to at least twenty more, including ‘Jeremy Clarkson: Motormouth’, ‘Harry: A Prince Among Men’ and ‘Ian Fleming: A Licence to Kill’. He lives in Bloomsbury, London's literary area.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
Recognised as a near genius from an early age, there is little doubt that Stephen Fry has an awesome intellect.
Now best known as the quiz-master on the long-running comedy panel-show, QI, he is effortlessly erudite, and carries off being a brain box with all the charm of a character who has just escaped from a P. G. Wodehouse novel.
He is president of the mental-health charity Mind and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism by the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University, though he could easily rank as a secular saint. The BBC’s Culture Show made him one of their top ten Living Icons and he has been voted the Most Intelligent Man on Television.
But beneath the suave exterior, there lies a tortured soul.
He ran into trouble prep school and was regularly caned for being a thief, a fantasist and a liar. Expelled from two public schools for chronic truancy, he was sent to a sixth-form college where he continued his career in crime. After absconding with a stolen credit card, he spent three months in jail.
He fled from the play Cell Mates three days into its West End run and turned up in Belgium. Later, he made the Emmy Award-winning documentary Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive.
Nigel Cawthorne’s concise biography sheds light on Fry’s tumultuous early years, his relentless ambition and his rise to fame.
'A fascinating insight into a complex man.' - Robert Foster, best-selling author of 'The Lunar Code'.
Nigel Cawthorne is the author of some eighty books - and a major contributor to at least twenty more, including ‘Jeremy Clarkson: Motormouth’, ‘Harry: A Prince Among Men’ and ‘Ian Fleming: A Licence to Kill’. He lives in Bloomsbury, London's literary area.
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.
