Review

Hermione Lee has written the definitive biography of living legend and playwright Tom Stoppard

By Colin Steele
February 27 2021 - 12:00am
Tom Stoppard: "Good at performing niceness, but he is not as nice as people think". Picture: Getty Images
Tom Stoppard: "Good at performing niceness, but he is not as nice as people think". Picture: Getty Images
  • Tom Stoppard: A Life, by Hermione Lee. Faber. $59.99.

An ANU colleague saw my copy of Hermione Lee's doorstopper biography of Sir Tom Stoppard - it's nearly 1000 pages- and said "who's he?"