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Who Conserved Herring? Who Self-Pleasured to Excess?

Match the subject to the biography.

  • By Molly Bennet
  • Published Aug 24, 2008
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John Lennon: The Life by Philip Norman. ecco. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham. Random House. Chagall: a Biography by Jackie Wullschlager. Knopf. Somebody: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer. Knopf. Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB [Ol’ Dirty Bastard] by Jaime Lowe. Faber and Faber. Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White. Atlas & Co.


“[He] was an impossible guest. He took to nude sunbathing … He mutilated an heirloom crucifix.”

“[He] used to buy a cucumber and a herring … eating the head one day and keeping the tail for the next.”

“He became a dedicated wanker … Once, he accepted [a friend’s] challenge to do it ten times in a single day… ”

“I caught a glimpse of … his fairy-tale canopy bed shrouded in cascading yellow chiffon.”

“Hired as an usher at a local movie house … he substituted a dickey for the starched shirt…”

“One of his secretaries once observed that ‘there was more of the woman in his nature than in that of any man I ever knew…’”

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