Michael Korda
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
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If you want a happy ending, that depends...To be completely woman you need a master...I take work very seriously and telling the truth...It is essential to seek out enemy agents...You know, people want to honor me...My mother told me to be a lady...