Craig Brown is a prolific journalist and the author of more than fifteen books, including This is Craig Brown, The Tony Years, and Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. He has been writing his parodic diary in Private Eye since 1989. He is the only person ever to have won three different Press Awards--for best humorist, columnist, and critic--in the same year. He has been a columnist for The Guardian, The Times (London), The Spectator, and The Daily Telegraph, among others. He currently writes for The Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. His book, Hello Goodbye Hello, was translated into ten languages and was a New York Times bestseller.
A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the James Tait Black
Prize for Biography A Guardian Book of the Year A
Times Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the
Year A Daily Mail Book of the Year Best summer books 2018,
Newsday A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 An NPR Book of the
Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A dishy dive
into the real deal. --Vogue [A] supercharged biography.
--Vanity Fair "Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . .
. For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix's The Crown, this book
will be manna from heaven." --Hamish Bowles, Vogue
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant,
eccentric treat. --Anna Mundow, The Wall Street Journal Craig
Brown's Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a royal
biography unlike any another. Come for the Instagram-worth cover,
and stay for a few chapters where Brown veers away from history to
dwell in what could have been for the Queen's sister. --Caroline
Hallemann, Town & Country Brown ignores all the starchy
obligations of biography and adopts a form of his own to trap the
past and ensnare the reader -- even this reader, so determinedly
indifferent to the royals. I ripped through the book with the
avidity of Margaret attacking her morning vodka and orange juice .
. . The wisdom of the book, and the artistry, is in how Brown
subtly expands his lens from Margaret's misbehavior -- sometimes
campy, sometimes desperate -- to those who gawked at her, who
huddled around her, pens poised over their diaries, hoping for the
show she never denied them. --Parul Sehgal, The New York
Times Craig Brown's delectable Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess
Margaret is not a novel, though its subject seems like a sublime
work of fiction, too imperious to be true . . . Brown has done
something astonishing: He makes the reader care, even sympathize,
with perhaps the last subject worthy of such affection... His book
is big fun, equal measures insightful and hysterical. --Karen
Heller, The Washington Post This unsettling, incisive and honest
book also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny, and is a startlingly
original contribution to the genre of biography. --Mary Ann
Gwinn, The Seattle Times "In Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess
Margaret, award-winning journalist Craig Brown offers an acerbic
biography of the star-crossed princess, one that is hilarious and
bittersweet in turns . . . Brown's book is highly recommended for
all American royal-watchers." --Catherine Hollis, BookPage
"An original, memorable and substantial achievement." --Times
Literary Supplement
Brown's portrait of Margaret is by turns funny and moving, and
every page contains at least one telling detail about what makes
Margaret such a compelling avatar of royalty. --Constance Gracy,
Vox In addition to giving us a fantastical portrait of a woman
painted by many hands, this wicked, thoroughly entertaining book
presents a rich, unwholesome slice of social and cultural history
of Britain, especially from the 1950s to 1970s. --Katharine
Powers, Minneapolis Star Tribune "A biography teeming with the
joyous, the ghastly and clinically fascinating." --The
Times (London) "Hilarious and eye-opening." --The
Observer (London) "Hugely entertaining . . . Brilliantly
written, with a wonderful sardonic edge but also a thoughtful,
moving tone." --The
Spectator
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