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Book SynopsisChristopher Tinker is the Managing Editor at the National Portrait Gallery, London, where he has edited Vogue 100: A Century of Style (2016), David Bailey's Stardust (2014) and Lucian Freud Portraits (2012). Before joining the Gallery he spent twelve years at BBC Books, where he edited Jeremy Paxman's The Victorians (2009), Jonathan Dimbleby's Russia (2008) and commissioned The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn (2008), a collection of early colour photographs.
Simon Callow is an actor, director and writer. He has appeared in many popular films, including Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Maurice (1987), A Room with a View (1985) and Amadeus (1984). His stage work includes the one-man plays The Mystery of Charles Dickens (2012), Being Shakespeare (2011) and The Importance of Being Oscar (1997). His books include a biographical trilogy on Orson Welles, Oscar Wilde and His Circle (2013), Charles Dickens and the Theatre of the World (2012), My Life in Pieces, Charles Laughton
