Tom Stoppard

A Life

By: Hermione Lee

with unprecedented access to private papers, diaries, letters, and countless interviews with figures ranging from felicity kendal to john boorman and trevor nunn to steven spielberg, hermione lee builds a metiucously researched portrait of one of our greatest playwrights.drawing on several years of long, exploratory conversations with stoppard himself, it tracks his czech origins and childhood in...