William Kuhn

My new biography of Lord Byron tells the story of a man famous as a lover 200 years ago. But he fascinated me because of the way he performed miracles of self-healing and rebirth through his writing. SWIMMING WITH LORD BYRON shows how Byron the lover and Byron the writer were also combined, surprisingly, with Byron the swimmer. JACKIE STORIES describes my interviews with Jacqueline Onassis's friends. I went to their houses. I noticed their clothes. I listened to their views on the woman they knew well. READING JACKIE is a look at Jackie's private library. She revealed herself in ways she probably didn't intend during her lifelong romance with books. Two cheerful fictions about life inside the Royal Household are MRS QUEEN TAKES THE TRAIN an

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