Book World: Friends knew not to turn their backs on Sybille Bedford. History should, too.
Book World: Friends knew not to turn their backs on Sybille Bedford. History should, too. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Feb. 18, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Selina Hastings - - - Creative people are frequently monsters. As Bernard Shaw provocatively declared, "the true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art." The novelist and journalist Sybille Bedford (1911-2006), the subject of Sel...
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