I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there – a couple of photographers but no other writers.
Anthony Holden Quotes
Showing all quotesBirth: | 22nd May, 1947 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Author, Biographer, Broadcaster, Critic, Journalist |
Anthony Holden was born in Southport, Lancashire. He is an English writer, broadcaster and critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Leigh Hunt, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British Royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales. He has also published translations of opera and Ancient Greek poetry as well as several autobiographical books about poker. In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker. A journalist before turning full-time writer, at the start of his career as a graduate trainee on Thomson Regional Newspapers' Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo, Holden covered the trial in St Albans of the psychopathic poisoner, Graham Young.
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