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Picked this one up in Blackburn today for all of £1.49.
Hard backed first edition from 2011 of a style icon.....American divorcee.....The Woman who could have been Queen! Book titled "That Woman" The life of Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor signed b Author Anne Sebba. It still has the signed by the Author at Waterstones sticker on the front cover and is in un-read condition. Lovely sig in Blue Biro, Just how I like books to be signed.
Anne Sebba is a British biographer, writer, lecturer and journalist. She is the author of eight non-fiction books for adults, two biographies for children and several introductions to reprinted classics.
Anne Sebba (née Rubinstein) was born in London in 1951. She read history at King's College London (1969–72) and after a brief spell at the BBC World Service in Bush House joined Reuters as a graduate trainee, working in London and Rome, from 1972–8. She wrote her first book while living in New York and now lives in London.
Her discovery of an unpublished series of letters from Wallis Simpson to her second husband Ernest Simpson, shortly before her eventual marriage to the ex-King, Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, formed the basis of a Channel 4 film, The Secret Letters, first shown on UK television in August 2011, and also a biography of Simpson; 'That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson Duchess of Windsor'. The letters have led to a reappraisal of the Abdication Crisis. In September 2009 Sebba joined the Management Committee of the Society of Authors and since 2012 she has been Chair of the Management Committee of the Society of Authors.[11] She is a longstanding member of English PEN and after several years on the Writers in Prison Committee served twice on the PEN Management Committee. She went to Turkey twice as an official observer for PEN for the trial of journalist Asiye Guzel Zeybeck.
