by Stephen Fry
André and I took the idea of the series to Richard Klein and Peter Fincham at the BBC and they were both passionate in their support–all from a refreshingly and benevolently hands-off distance.
My producing partner at Sprout, Gina Carter, deserves my profound thanks as always, and I am eternally grateful to Katy Carrington and her team at HarperCollins for their professionalism and creative flair in the face of a very short lead time and an author who seemed so often to be doing everything except sitting down and writing.
As ever gratitude and indebtedness beyond computation to my beloved and loyal personal assister, Jo Crocker.
SF–June 2008
About the Author
STEPHEN FRY was born in London in 1957 and educated at Stout’s Hill, Uppingham, and Queens’ College, Cambridge. At Cambridge he joined the Footlights, where he first met Hugh Laurie. He has numerous television appearances to his credit, most notably, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, QI, and House. Major film roles include Peter in Peter’s Friends (1990) and Oscar Wilde in Wilde (1997); in the realm of television, his critically acclaimed The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive won an Emmy. He is the author of the bestselling novels The Liar, The Hippopotamus, Making History, and Revenge: A Novel, as well as the highly acclaimed autobiography Moab Is My Washpot and, in 2005, a well-received guide to writing poetry, The Ode Less Travelled.
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