2,421 words
Part 1 of 2
“The only thing that really saddens me over my demise is that I shall not be here to read the nonsense that will be written about me and my works and my motives. . . . There will be lists of apocryphal jokes I never made and gleeful misquotations of words I never said. What a pity I shan’t be here to enjoy them “—The Noël Coward Diaries, March 19, 1955. Read more …
Sir Noël Coward, 1899–1973, Part 2
Part 2 of 2
Noël Coward
The Noël Coward Reader
Ed. Barry Day
New York: Knopf, 2010
Noël Coward
The Letters of Noel Coward
Ed. Barry Day
New York: Knopf, 2007
Read more …