Snapshots

de Herbert Kretzmer

Although perhaps best-known as an Ivor Novello award-winning lyricist acclaimed, in particular, for his work in adapting Les Miserables into English, Herbert Kretzmer has also been a journalist of note, interviewing and profiling some of the biggest names of sport, politics, theatre and literature of the twentieth century for the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express. Snapshots brings together the very best of those pieces and offers an opportunity to rediscover intimate, eclectic and wide-ranging interviews with personalities such as Truman Capote, Matt Busby, Spike Milligan, Leni Riefenstahl, Peter Sellers, Sugar Ray Robinson, John Steinbeck, Marlene Dietrich, Henry Miller and many more. This extraordinary book is nothing short of a cultural cornucopia of the last century, offering unique insights into some of the most talented and charismatic names of the day. It is also a beguiling portrait of a master interviewer at his very best.