Harold pinter and antonia fraser5/9/2023 During all my contact with Harold and Antonia, I was offered unwavering support. He simply growled in response.īut that was a rare event. That evening in the bar I asked whether he got my note. That was when, on the opening day of a Pinter festival in New York in 2001, I pushed a note under his hotel door about criticism from Germany of his attack on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes. I can truly say that Harold and I hardly ever fell out: only once did he show irritation. I had to get close enough to him to write the book while remaining sufficiently detached to review his work. Inevitably, my relationship with Harold was complex. Reading Antonia's book, I was also intrigued to discover that as long ago as 1980 they had discussed a future biographer ("What a morbid subject," said Harold) and decided, very astutely, that Ronnie Harwood would be the man for the job. They both assumed I'd be far too busy to accept and were astonished when I said yes. In order to fend off another would-be biographer, Harold and Antonia concocted a plan whereby they told the persistent writer that I had been asked to do the authorised version. I was amused, however, to be told by Antonia, shortly after Harold's death, that my book was never expected to happen.
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