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This article is about the author. For the Canadian politician, see Anne Edwards (politician)
Anne Edwards
Born August 20, 1927[1]
Port Chester, New York, USA[2]
Occupation Author, Biographer
Genres Entertainment Business Celebrities, Fiction, Children's Books

Anne Edwards (born August 20, 1927[1], Port Chester, New York, USA[2]) is an author best known for her biographies of celebrities that include Princess Diana, Maria Callas, Judy Garland, Katherine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Temple and Countess Sonya Tolstoy. She attended University of California, Los Angeles (1943-46) and Southern Methodist University (1947-48).[2] A child performer on stage and radio, she began her writing career as a junior writer at MGM in 1944 and became a noted Hollywood screenwriter and television writer during the late 1940s and early 1950s.[2] She lived in the UK and Europe from the mid 1950s until 1972.[2] Her film credits include co-writing the first draft of the screenplay for the film Funny Girl (1968)[3] starring Barbra Streisand. She wrote her first novel, the best-selling The Survivors, in 1968 and subsequently (as of 2008) has written seven novels, fifteen biographies, three children's books, and (with her husband -- composer-musicologist-pianist Stephen Citron[3])-- an autobiography. She lived in Connecticut, USA in 1997.[3] She is a past president of the Authors Guild and currently serves on its Board of Directors. [4] Her collection of literary manuscripts, papers, and related materials is now part of the Special Collections Department of the Charles E. Young Research Library[5] at UCLA, where she has taught writing. She currently resides in Beverly Hills, California.[1]

In an interview for Publishers Weekly, Edwards said, "An idea hits me, then I develop the story or, in the case of a biography, think of a person who exemplifies that theme. Vivien [Leigh], Judy [Garland] and Sonya [Tolstoy] were vastly interesting people and symbolic of certain things: Judy, the exploitation of a woman; Vivien, somebody who suffered from manic-depression; Sonya, an intelligent woman subjugated to a man who used her, drained her, made a villain of her." [6]

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Bibliography

Biographies

  • Judy Garland: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1975)
  • Vivien Leigh: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1977)
  • Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy (Simon & Schuster, 1981)
  • Road to Tara: Life of Margaret Mitchell (Hodder & Stoughton, 1983)
  • Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor (William Morrow and Company, 1984)
  • A Remarkable Woman: A Biography of Katharine Hepburn (Morrow, 1985)
  • The DeMilles: An American Family (Harry N. Abrams, 1988)
  • Shirley Temple: American Princess (Morrow, 1988)
  • Early Reagan: The Rise to Power (Morrow, 1990)
  • Royal Sisters: Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret (Morrow, 1990)
  • The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal/Years of Grace (Morrow, 1992)
  • Throne of Gold: The Lives of the Aga Khans (Diane Publishing, 1995)
  • Streisand: A Biography (Little, Brown, 1997)
  • Maria Callas: An Intimate Biography (St. Martin's Press, 2001)
  • The Reagans: Portrait of a Marriage (St. Martin's Press, 2003)

Novels

  • The Survivors (Holt Rinehart Winston, 1968)
  • Miklos Alexandrovitch Is Missing (Coward-McCann, 1970)
  • Shadow Of A Lion (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1971)
  • Haunted Summer (Bantam Books, 1974)
  • The Hesitant Heart (Random House, 1974)
  • Child of Night (Random House, 1975)
  • Wallis: The Novel (Morrow, 1991)
  • La Divina (Mandarin Publishing, 1996)

Autobiography

  • The Inn and Us (Random House, 1976), co-authored with husband Stephen Citron

Children's Books

  • P. T. Barnum (Putnam, 1977)
  • The Great Houdini (Putnam, 1977)
  • A Child's Bible (Topeka Bindery, 1987), co-authored with Shirley Steen

References

  1. ^ a b c Anne Edwards at LibraryThing.com
  2. ^ a b c d e Author notes in Vivien Leigh: A Biography (Simon & Schuster, 1977)
  3. ^ a b c Author Notes in Streisand: A Biography (Little, Brown and Company, 1997)
  4. ^ Authors Guild
  5. ^ Online Archive of California http://www.oac.cdlib.org
  6. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, (2002)

Professor Anne Edwards is the current Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia.

Professor Anne R Edwards took up the position of Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University in January 2001, following a period as Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1995 to 2000.

She previously was Professor of Sociology at Monash University and had held the positions of Head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts. She had been at Monash since 1968.

Professor Edwards has authored a significant number of journal articles, research papers, reports and conferences papers and has published three books and has been on the editorial board of a number of scholarly journals. Her principal fields of research and academic specialisation include the changing nature of the modern state; public policy in such areas as health, criminal law and welfare; power and social control; women and gender issues; and youth. She has been a part-time consultant with various public and private organisations in the human services area.

Professor Edwards was a member of the Australian Universities Teaching Committee from 2000 to 2004. She has been a member of the Board of the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee since 2002. She was a member of the Australian Research Council from 1994-1997, and Deputy Chair in 1997.

Professor Edwards was convener of Innovative Research Universities Australia, comprising Flinders, Griffith, La Trobe, Macquarie, Murdoch and Newcastle Universities, from 2003 to 2006.

Professor Edwards also was a member of the Victorian Casino and Gaming Authority from 1993 to 2000 and Deputy Chair and Chair of the Authority's Research Committee from 1994. In 2000 she was a member of the South Australian Film Corporation Board. From 2000 to 2004 she was the Chair of the Board of the Adelaide Central School of Art. She is a founding trustee of the South Australian Women's Trust. She is a member of the board of the Southern Adelaide Health Service.

Professor Edwards holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a PhD from the University of London and is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and the Australian College of Educators.

External links

  • The Flinders University of South Australia











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