About the Author:
Adrian Turner
Adrian Turner is an author, journalist and film historian. He has written extensively for The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times and published seven books on the cinema including The Making of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, a biography of playwright and screenwriter Robert Bolt, and a critical study of Billy Wilder co-written with Neil Sinyard. From the 1970s he programmed the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead and London’s National Film Theatre where he also organised the series of Guardian Lectures which forms a large part of this latest autobiographical work, Based on Fact. In 2003 he and his wife Andrea left London for a life of countryside living in Norfolk and keep busy by cooking, gardening, photography and frequent travel to the world’s furthest reaches.
