Sunday times biography of the year
Sunday times biography of the year 2.
Sunday times biography of the year
Writer
‘Ian is the only acclaimed non fiction writer in the history of the West End ever to have adapted his own work as a hit comedy… and starred in it’
Sir Jonathan Bate on Mr Foote’s Other Leg.
Ian's five historical biographies have garnered international acclaim, awards, film, tv and theatre adaptations and have been translated into over twenty languages.
He is a regular speaker at literary events, and on US and UK tv and radio.
Casanova was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, Mr Foote’s Other Leg, the biography, won the 2013 Theatre Book of the Year Award before being adapted for the stage at the suggestion of Sir Michael Codron.
It broke box office records at Hampstead before transferring straight into the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the West End. Cooking for Kings - the life of Antonin Careme the First Celebrity Chef, was Radio 4 Book of the Week and became a hit Off Broadway play, Beau Brummell a BBC TV film and Casanova was adapted as a ballet (northernballet.com/