| His elder sister is the biographer Antonia Fraser and four other siblings also write books. |
| He departs agreeably from the normal procedures of the biographer, sometimes a little in the manner of The Quest for Corvo. |
| He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer. |
| He was also a man of letters and had a parallel career as a writer, medical biographer, and historian. |
| The film critic and biographer has been commissioned to tidy up the novel and write an afterword to set the book in context. |
| He also began work on his life of 17th century biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey. |
