Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography by Barry Humphries, ISBN 9780733624001

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In this unauthorised biography, acquired for an unprecedented advance and in spectacular secrecy, long-time manager and the man who was there from the very beginning, Barry Humphries takes a behind-the-scenes, no-holds-barred look at an icon of our times - Dame Edna Everage. Superstar, swami, confidante and advisor to royalty, Hollywood stars and international political leaders, Dame Edna's life has catapulted her far from her humble Moonee Ponds beginnings as a suburban housewife to the most elite social and artistic circles in the world. Who would have thought that this modest Australian woman could achieve so much from London to Louisiana to New York to Tokyo? Who could have anticipated her global fame? Barry Humphries certainly didn't.

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About the Author: Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries' perennial success and his popularity with an increasingly heterogeneous international public have delighted all but a handful of curmudgeonly Australian journalists who are destined, alas, ever to remain strangers to Fame. His comic theatrical inventions have become accepted as national archetypes and Dame Edna Everage is the preferred role model for most of Australia's female achievers; albeit that the vetripotent, fescennine and priapic Ambassador, Sir Les Patterson, not seldom elicits from his countrymen an incredulous howl like that of Caliban on beholding his own reflection. Mr Humphries is an accomplished landscape painter, bibliophile and sometime music-hall artist. His books, translated into most European languages, are hugely popular, his stage shows enthusiastically patronized and his charming society much sought after by hostesses. Withal, he remains a pleasant and approachable person and a patriotic Australian. His autobiography More Please was published by Penguin in 1992. Barry was born in Camberwell, Melbourne, however now lives in London.

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