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The Noel Coward Diaries

Graham Payn

Noël Coward is remembered as the most witty and elegant of theatrical personalities. He left behind over fifty plays twenty-five films hundreds of songs and several books. Fortunately he also left behind these diaries chronicling the last thirty years of his life from 1941 to 1973. Moving through the theatrical social political and historical worlds on both sides of the Atlantic the impressive cast of characters includes Laurence Olivier Frank Sinatra Lauren Bacall John and Jackie Kennedy Harold Pinter members of the Royal Family and the Beatles among a host of others. The Noël Coward Diaries is a social and theatrical chronicle as stylish and irresistible as the man himself.
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  • Classification : General Non-Fiction
  • Pub Date : DEC 7, 2000
  • Imprint : Hachette Go
  • Page Extent : 712
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780306809606
  • Price : INR 2,720
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Graham Payn

Graham Payn a lifelong friend of Coward who appeared in many of his most successful plays now lives at Chalet Coward in Switzerland from where he runs the Coward estate.

Sheridan Morley is the drama critic of the Spectator and the International Herald Tribune and author of the first Coward biography A Talent to Amuse.

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