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The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Classical in form, resolved, warm and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Stephen Fry
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- ABRAMS (Ignition), Overlook Press, The, Rap
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780141964584
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Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him trav
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