by Craig Brown
Truman Capote by George Plimpton (Picador 1998)
Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee by Peter Richmond (Henry Holt 2006)
The Paris Review Interviews, Volume I (Canongate 2007)
38) Peggy Lee + President Richard M. Nixon 1970
‘Peggy Lee’s Back on Top – Is that All There is?’by Judy Klemesrud, New York Times April 26th 1970
‘Dead Silence on Human Rights’ by Hugh Sidey, Life magazine March 26th 1970
Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee by Peter Richmond (Henry Holt 2006)
The Reagan Diaries edited by Douglas Brinkley (HarperCollins 2007)
Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen by Jimmy McDonough (Simon and Schuster 2010)
39) President Richard M. Nixon + Elvis Presley 1970
Elvis by Bobbie Ann Mason (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown 1999)
The Day Elvis Met Nixon by Egil ‘Bud’ Krogh (Pejama Press 1994)
Groucho by Stefan Kanfer (Allen Lane 2000)
Getting High: The History of LSD, History Channel documentary, interview with Grace Slick
40) Elvis Presley + Paul McCartney 1965
Elvis by Bobbie Ann Mason (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman (HarperCollins 2008)
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown 1999)
Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America by Jonathan Gould (Portrait Books 2007)
The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines (Macmillan 1983)
The Beatles: A Day in the Life compiled by Tom Schultheiss (Omnibus 1980)
The Beatles Anthology, DVD
41) Paul McCartney + Noël Coward 1965
The Faber Book of Pop edited by Hanif Kureishi and Jon Savage (Faber and Faber 1995)
The Orton Diaries edited by John Lahr (Methuen 1986)
The Letters of Noël Coward edited by Barry Day (Methuen 2007)
The Noël Coward Diaries edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Da Capo Press 2000)
Noël Coward by Philip Hoare (Chatto and Windus 1995)
Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now (Secker and Warburg 1997)
John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman (HarperCollins 2008)
The Beatles: A Day in the Life compiled by Tom Schultheiss (Omnibus 1980)
42) Noël Coward + Prince Felix Youssoupoff 1946
The Noël Coward Diaries edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley (Da Capo Press 2000)
The Life of Noël Coward by Cole Lesley (Jonathan Cape 1976)
The Murder of Rasputin by Greg King (Century 1996)
The Duff Cooper Diaries edited and introduced by John Julius Norwich (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2005)
43) Prince Felix Youssoupoff + Grigori Rasputin 1916
The Murder of Rasputin by Greg King (Century 1996)
The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex de Jonge (Collins 1992)
Rasputin: His Malignant Influence and his Assassination by Prince Youssoupoff (Jonathan Cape 1927)
Lost Splendour by Felix Youssoupoff (Jonathan Cape 1953)
Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth by Maria Rasputin and Patte Barham (Prentice Hall 1977)
44) Grigori Rasputin + Tsar Nicholas II 1915
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story by Andrei Mylunas and Sergei Mironenko (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1996)
The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin by Alex de Jonge (Collins 1982)
Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars by Marc Ferro (Viking 1991)
The Man Who Killed Rasputin by Greg King (Century 1996)
45) Tsar Nicholas II + Harry Houdini 1903
Handcuff Secrets by Harry Houdini (George Routledge and Sons 1909)
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie (Victor Gollancz 1968)
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America’s First Superhero by William Kalush and Larry Sloman (Atria Books 2006)
The Orson Welles Sketchbook, BBC TV December 2009
46) Harry Houdini + President Theodore Roosevelt 1914
Presidential Anecdotes by Paul F. Boller, Jr (Oxford University Press 1981)
Obituary of Houdini, New York Times November 1st 1926
Clips from a Life by Denis Norden (Fourth Estate 2008)
47) President Theodore Roosevelt + H.G. Wells 1906
The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973)
An Experiment in Autobiography, Volume II by H.G. Wells (Victor Gollancz 1934)
The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren (Bloomsbury 1993)
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (HarperCollins 2002)
The Future in America: A Search After Realities by H.G. Wells (Chapman and Hall 1906)
48) H.G. Wells + Josef Stalin 1934
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
The Penguin Book of Interviews edited by Christopher Silvester (Viking 1993)
An Experiment in Autobiography, Volume II by H.G.Wells (Victor Gollancz 1934)
Comrades by Robert Service (Macmillan 2007)
The Invisible Man: The Life and Liberties of H.G. Wells by Michael Coren (Bloomsbury 1993)
The Time Traveller: The Life of H.G. Wells by Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1973)
49) Josef Stalin + Maxim Gorky 1936
Comrades by Robert Service (Macmillan 2007)
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
Gorky by Henri Troyat (Allison and Busby 1991)
50) Maxim Gorky + Leo Tolstoy 1900
Maxim Gorky: Selected Letters selected, translated and edited by Andrew Barratt and Barry P. Scherr (Clarendon Press 1997)
Literary Portraits by M. Gorky translated by Ivy Litvinov (Foreign Languages Publishing House 1900)
Gorky by Henri Troyat (Allison and Busby 1991)
Gorky’s Tolstoy and Other Reminiscences translated, edited and introduced by Donald Fanger (Yale University Press 2008)
51) Leo Tolstoy + Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky 1876
www.tchaikovsky-research net
Tolstoy by A.N.Wilson (Hamish Hamilton 1988)
Tolstoy by Henri Troyat (W.H. Allen 1968)
Tchaikovsky by Herbert Weinstock (Da Capo Press 1981)
The Life and Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky by Modeste Tchaikovsky (University Press of the Pacific 2004)
Diaries of Tchaikovsky edited by Wladimir Lakond (W.W. Norton 1945)
Tchaikovsky: A Biography by Alan Kendall (Bodley Head 1988)
52) Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky + Sergei Rachmaninoff 1888
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (George Allen and Unwin 1965)
www.tchaikovsky-research.net
53) Sergei Rachmaninoff + Harpo Marx 1931
Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda (George Allen and Unwin 1965)
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber (Geis Associates 1961)
The Real Nick and Norah by David L. Goodrich (2001
54) Harpo Marx + George Bernard Shaw 1928
Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx with Rowland Barber (Geis Associates 1961)
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings (John Murray 2009)
55) George Bernard Shaw + Bertrand Russell 1895
City of Cities: The Birth of Modern London by Stephen Inwood (Macmillan 2005)
A Bernard Shaw Chronology by Anthony Matthews Gibbs (Palgrave Macmillan 2001)
Back to Methuselah by George Bernard Shaw (Constable 1921)
Bernard Shaw by Michael Holroyd (Chatto and Windus 1997)
Portraits from Memory by Bertrand Russell (George Allen and Unwin 1958)
The Spi
rit of Solitude by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape 1996)
Analysis of the Mind by Bertrand Russell (1921)
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (1927)
On Education by Bertrand Russell (1926)
56) Bertrand Russell + Sarah Miles 1964
Serves Me Right by Sarah Miles (Macmillan 1994)
Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape 2000)
Face to Face, BBC TV box set
57) Sarah Miles + Terence Stamp 1961
Serves Me Right by Sarah Miles (Macmillan 1994)
Double Feature by Terence Stamp (Bloomsbury 1989)
Olivier by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)
58) Terence Stamp + Edward Heath 1968
Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler (Harper Press 2010)
Edward Heath: A Biography by John Campbell (Jonathan Cape 1993)
John Fowles: The Journals, Volume II edited by Charles Drazin (Jonathan Cape 2006)
Survey of London, Volumes 31 and 32: St James Westminster Part 2, general editor F.H.W. Sheppard (Survey of London 1963)
‘Piccadilly Piccalilli’ by Nicholas Hill, Tatler May 1982
The Bachelor of the Albany by Marmion Savage (Harper and Brothers 1848)
‘Profile of Albany’ by Hywel Williams, New Statesman December 1998
The Times February 2nd 2001
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties by Dominic Sandbrook (Little, Brown 2006)
59) Edward Heath + Walter Sickert 1934
Edward Heath: A Biography by John Campbell (Jonathan Cape 1993)
Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler (Harper Press 2010)
The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997 by Alan Clark (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1998)
Music: A Joy for Life by Edward Heath (Sidgwick and Jackson 1976)
Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (HarperCollins 2005)
Cold Cream by Ferdinand Mount (Bloomsbury 2008)
Diaries 1942–1943: Ancestral Voices by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1975)
Listening for a Midnight Tram: Memoirs by John Junor (Chapmans 1990)
The Strange Death of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Allen Lane 2005)
The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies (HarperCollins 1993)
A World of My Own: A Dream Diary by Graham Greene (Reinhardt Books 1994)
Article by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Independent November 24th 1992
60) Walter Sickert + Winston Churchill 1927
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage by Mary Soames (Houghton Mifflin 1979)
Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills by Mary Soames (Doubleday 1998)
Walter Sickert: A Life by Matthew Sturgis (HarperCollins 2005)
Sir Winston Churchill: His Life and His Paintings by David Coombs and Minnie S. Churchill (Running Press 2004)
In Search of Churchill by Martin Gilbert (HarperCollins 1994)
61) Winston Churchill + Laurence Olivier 1951
Olivier by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)
Laurence Olivier by Donald Spoto (HarperCollins 1991)
Confessions of an Actor by Laurence Olivier (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1982)
62) Laurence Olivier + J.D. Salinger 1951
J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski (Pomona Books 2010)
In Search of J.D. Salinger: A Biography by Ian Hamilton (Random House 1988)
Dream Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger (Washington Square Press 2000)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (Little, Brown 1952)
Olivier by Terry Coleman (Bloomsbury 2005)
The Times February 13th 2010
Westport Patch March 20th 2010
Guardian January 27th 2011
63) J.D. Salinger + Ernest Hemingway 1944
‘Liberating France Hemingway’s Way’ by Michael Taylor, San Francisco Chronicle August 2004
‘When Papa Met Salinger’ by Bradley R. McDuffie, Edmonton Journal July 2010
In Search of J.D. Salinger: A Biography by Ian Hamilton (Random House 1988)
Dream Catcher: A Memoir by Margaret A. Salinger (Washington Square Press 2000)
J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High by Kenneth Slawenski (Pomona Books 2010)
The True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Hemingway – by Those Who Knew Him by Denis Brian (Grove Press 1988)
Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos Baker (Charles Scribner’s Sons 1969)
Interview with Lillian Ross, Observer December 12th 2010
64) Ernest Hemingway + Ford Madox Ford 1924
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (Jonathan Cape 1964)
Ford Madox Ford by Alan Judd (HarperCollins 1990)
Hemingway by Frank Lynn (Simon and Schuster 1987)
Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael Reynolds (Blackwell 1989)
Hemingway: A Life without Consequences by James R. Mellow (Hodder and Stoughton 1993)
65) Ford Madox Ford + Oscar Wilde 1899
Memories and Impressions: A Study in Atmospheres by Ford Madox Ford (Harper and Brothers 1911)
Return to Yesterday by Ford Madox Ford (Victor Gollancz 1931)
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann (Hamish Hamilton 1987)
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate 2000)
An Innkeeper’s Diary by John Fothergill with an introduction by Craig Brown (Folio Society 2000)
66) Oscar Wilde + Marcel Proust 1891
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann (Hamish Hamilton 1987)
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate 2000)
Marcel Proust by William C. Carter (Yale University Press 2000)
Marcel Proust: A Biography by George D. Painter (Chatto and Windus 1989)
Marcel Proust: Selected Letters, Volume IV edited by Philip Kolb (HarperCollins 2000)
67) Marcel Proust + James Joyce 1922
A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines (Faber and Faber 2006)
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (Oxford University Press 1959)
Written Lives by Javier Marais (Canongate 2006)
68) James Joyce + Harold Nicolson 1931
Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39 edited by Nigel Nicolson (Atheneum 1966)
Harold Nicolson: A Biography by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1980)
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (Oxford University Press 1959)
69) Harold Nicolson + Cecil Beaton 1967
Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries by Cecil Beaton, edited by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985)
Harold Nicolson: A Biography by James Lees-Milne (Chatto and Windus 1980)
70) Cecil Beaton + Mick Jagger 1967
Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries by Cecil Beaton, edited by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2003)
Cecil Beaton by Hugo Vickers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1985)
Life by Keith Richards (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2010)
The Stones by Philip Norman (Elm Tree Books 1984)
71) Mick Jagger + Tom Driberg 1967
Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions by Francis Wheen (Chatto and Windus 1990)
Mick and Keith by Chris Salewicz (Orion 2002)
Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton (Michael Joseph 1994)
The Stones by Philip Norman (Elm Tree Books 1984)
72) Tom Driberg + Christopher Hitchens 1976
‘Reader, He Married Her’ by Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books May 10th 1990
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic 2010)
Tom Driberg: His Life and Indiscretions by Francis Wheen (Chatto and Windus 1990)
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis (Hutchinson 1991)
Messengers of
Day by Anthony Powell (Heinemann 1978)
73) Christopher Hitchens + George Galloway 2005
Gorgeous George: The Life and Adventures of George Galloway by David Morley (Politico’s 2007)
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic 2010)
YouTube: George Galloway debates Christopher Hitchens at Baruch University, New York
Independent September 16th 2005
Guardian September 16th 2005
Guardian May 18th 2005
Weekly Standard May 24th 2005
The Times September 15th 2005
Christopher Hitchens in Slate magazine September 13th 2005
74) George Galloway + Michael Barrymore 2006
Guardian January 13th 2006
The Times January 24th 2006
BBC News website
Awight Now by Michael Barrymore (Simon and Schuster 2007)
Barrymore: A Man Possessed by Phil Taylor and Paul Nicholas (Metro Publishing 2002)
75) Michael Barrymore + Diana, Princess of Wales 1996
Awight Now by Michael Barrymore (Simon and Schuster 2007)
Barrymore: A Man Possessed by Phil Taylor and Paul Nicholas (Metro Publishing 2002)
Interview with Michael Barrymore, Observer December 29th 2002
Interview with Cheryl Barrymore, Daily Mail July 31st 1999
Diana by Sarah Bradford (Viking 2006)
76) Diana, Princess of Wales + Princess Grace 1981
Interview with David and Elizabeth Emmanuel, Sunday Mirror August 16th 1998
Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig (Hodder and Stoughton 2001)
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown (Century 2007)
Once Upon a Time: The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Sidgwick and Jackson 2003)
Diana by Sarah Bradford (Viking 2006)
Diana: Her True Story – in Her Own Words by Andrew Morton (Michael O’Mara 1992)
77) Princess Grace + Alfred Hitchcock 1961
Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie by Tony Lee Moral (Manchester University Press 2002)
Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess by James Spada (Sidgwick and Jackson 1987)
Once Upon a Time: The Story of Princess Grace, Prince Rainier and Their Family by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Sidgwick and Jackson 2003)
Ned Sherrin’s Theatrical Anecdotes (Virgin 1991)
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light by Patrick McGilligan (Wiley 2003)
78) Alfred Hitchcock + Raymond Chandler 1950
The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane (Hamish Hamilton 1986)