Anthony Summers
Author of Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
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Investigative journalist and author Anthony Summers has written Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, Goddess: The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe and Not in Your Lifetime, a book about the Kennedy assassination. Summers received the British Crime Writers' Association Gold show more Dagger Award for Non-Fiction in 1980 for Conspiracy. (Bowker Author Biography) Anthony Summers is the author of the best-selling biographies "Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe" & "Official & Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Legal name
- Summers, Anthony Bruce
- Birthdate
- 1942-12-21
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Ireland
- Places of residence
- Ireland
- Education
- Oxford University
- Occupations
- reporter (BBC)
- Organizations
- Granada Television
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- Award-winning biographer and journalist Anthony Summers was educated at Oxford University. He began his career in broadcast journalism working for Granada TV’s “World in Action” program and later BBC News. As Senior Film Producer with Britain’s top public affairs programs, “24 Hours” and “Panorama,” he covered the United States, the Vietnam War, and the Middle East. He has produced documentary specials on the culture of Vietnam, the Palestinians, drug trafficking, the Kennedy assassination, and the fate of Russia’s last imperial family. He obtained an exclusive interview with the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov when the physicist - under house arrest at the time - won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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