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Lesley Blanch ReviewPamela Blevins (Brevard, NC) I had never heard of Lesley Blanch until a friend in England sent me an early review of Anne Boston's biography. I had to wait some time for it to be available in the US but the wait was worth it. Boston has written a compelling and engaging narrative about a remarkable woman. To me a successful biographer is one who makes his or her subject come alive to a individual who had no prior knowledge or interest in that person. Boston has achieved this goal with her biography of Blanch. The fact that it is unauthorized is a plus. Blanch told her friends not to talk to the author, which tells me that she wanted someone to play by the rules and perhaps perpetuate the myths and misconceptions about the life she herself had created. Boston tells it like it was and, in the process, humanizes her subject, makes her real. Of necessity she sometimes she makes an informed guess but ultimately leaves it for the reader to decide. All too often, authorized biographies tell only one side of the story, the side that fans want to hear. Unauthorized biographies are, to me, more honest because the author is not inhibited by "authorized" constraints and is free to tell the life as it was.Lesley Blanch OverviewLesley Blanch was an artist to her fingertips, a writer, a traveler, a bohemian: a talented illustrator who became Vogue's maverick arts correspondent and a fine film writer. Her first book, The Wilder Shores of Love, became a worldwide bestseller and opened up a new field of historical travel writing. From a young age she had a great passion for Russia, inspired by her childhood adoration and first love for the Traveler, a mysterious Russian friend of her parents. Later she found the ‘eternal Slav' in Romain Gary, Franco-Slav diplomat and writer, and with him embarked on a turbulent life of postings from Bulgaria to Los Angeles. After their divorce she transferred her obsession to Turkey, Persia, and the Islamic East where she traveled widely, with tremendous baggage. Lesley Blanch loved mystery and secrets. Vivid yet elusive, she hid as much as she revealed and left a legend behind her. In this richly evocative biography, Anne Boston draws on publishers' archives, unpublished journals and conversations with those who knew her, to piece together, for the first time, the tumultuous life of a free spirit for whom "character plus opportunity equals fortune."

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