Typescript of Interview with Peter Coleman (Australian writer and former politician) in Los Angeles October 1991.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

Comprising 199 single-side f'scap pages with ms. corrections editor and poet Higham moved to Australiain 1954 before setting in Los Angeles in 1969 where he established a reputation as a celebrity biographer mainly of film stars. Higham's first best-seller was Kate (1975) the first authorised biography of Katharine Hepburn. This success was followed by Bette: the Life of Bette Davis a biography of Lucille Ball and The Duchess of Windsor (1988). In the book about the Duchess of Windsor he claimed she had learned unusual sexual practices in the brothels of Peking and was the lover of Count Ciano and Ribbentrop. In 1980 Higham's "most sensational work" Errol Flynn: The Untold Story appeared. In this biography he alleged that Errol Flynn was a facist sympathiser who spied for the Nazis before and after World War II.