Autobiography elizabeth taylor

This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time.
Elizabeth Taylor is one of the last of the old Hollywood stars.
In this book, Elizabeth Taylor talks freely and informally about the many aspects of her controversial life.

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Elizabeth Taylor

August 12, 2013

This chatty memoir, put together while Taylor was a newlywed with Richard Burton for the first time, made me sad. She writes about all the people wounded by the Taylor-Burton affair--his wife (whom she liked) and kids, her husband (not to mention his ex-wife and kids whose childhoods were wrecked, as Carrie Fisher's memoirs make clear) and Taylor's own kids from two earlier marriages and one recent adoption. Taylor says that she and Burton will have to be married for at least the next 25 years to make all that destruction worthwhile...

Twenty-three years later she will have published a second memoir, advising women to stop eating fried chicken and start eating small portions of beef covered by peanut butter. But here she's carefree about her weight, claiming to delight in the fact that Burton, her son's classmates, and she herself have noticed that she's fat. There's even a photograph of smiling Taylor, about to pounce on a piece of fried chicken.

Other aspects of Taylor's 1960s lifestyle also don't bode well. She's happy to be subordinate to Bu

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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.

Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.

Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywoo

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Elizabeth Taylor gets her first-ever authorized biography: See the cover

No one was better at being a movie star than Elizabeth Taylor.

Rising from child star to respected actress and a key figure in the rise of celebrity culture as audiences lapped up her off-screen romances, Taylor was a star like no other. Her longevity and dedication to philanthropy only furthered that image. Her career spanned from actor to activist and so much in between.

But in spite of all that, Taylor has never been the subject of an authorized biography. Until now.

EW can exclusively debut the cover for Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower.

Coming to bookshelves Dec. 6, the biography is the first to tell Taylor's story with the full cooperation of the Trustees of her estate: Barbara Berkowitz, Tim Mendelson, and Quinn Tivey.

"We are proud to announce the first-ever, authorized written biography about Elizabeth," said the estate in a statement. "Because she was the most famous woman in the world, everyone thinks they know her. We can