An exciting glimpse into the lives of great writers, from this profile of Lady Antonia Fraser on the occasion of the publication of her memoir of life with Harold Pinter:
By Fraser’s account, her husband and VS Naipaul, the writer, were bosom buddies with much in common — “they discuss anger like one might discuss a taste for port”. Yet, according to The World Is What It Is, Patrick French’s authorised biography of Naipaul, the latter thought Pinter’s work adolescent, concerned with “childish fears and sexual longings”. After Pinter offended the author by rejecting a nut loaf made by Naipaul’s wife, Pat, the invitation to the couple’s Wiltshire home “was never repeated”, French wrote.
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