Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed trade biographies of writers. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words.

Bradford is a champion debunker of myth-makers

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on SourcesA Strange History A Dysfunctional Family All Over the Place Larry in Egypt The Meeting of Opposites The Rise of Gerry Larry: Spying Again Animal Farm France Reunion at the Manor Larry in Hell Gerry’s Hopelessness Ghislaine, Among Others Gerry: A New Life Larry: His Closing Chapter The Real GerrySelect Bibliography

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed trade biographies of writers. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words.

Bradford is a champion debunker of myth-makers

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on SourcesA Strange History A Dysfunctional Family All Over the Place Larry in Egypt The Meeting of Opposites The Rise of Gerry Larry: Spying Again Animal Farm France Reunion at the Manor Larry in Hell Gerry’s Hopelessness Ghislaine, Among Others Gerry: A New Life Larry: His Closing Chapter The Real GerrySelect Bibliography

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published more than thirty books, including eight well-reviewed trade biographies of writers. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words.

Bradford is a champion debunker of myth-makers

• Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on SourcesA Strange History A Dysfunctional Family All Over the Place Larry in Egypt The Meeting of Opposites The Rise of Gerry Larry: Spying Again Animal Farm France Reunion at the Manor Larry in Hell Gerry’s Hopelessness Ghislaine, Among Others Gerry: A New Life Larry: His Closing Chapter The Real GerrySelect Bibliography