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Lady Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Fraser Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter

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  • ABOUT Lady Antonia Fraser

    Antonia Fraser is the author of acclaimed historical works that have been international bestsellers. Her works include Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell, and the Lord Protector. She is the editor of The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. Her newest book, Must You Go, tells the story of her life with her husband Harold Pinter. Fraser is the recipient of many literary awards, including the Wolfson Prize for History, the Saint Louis Literary Award, and the 2000 Norton Medlicott Medal of Britain's Historical Association.

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  • ABOUT Victoria Lautman

    Victoria Lautman is the founder, host, and executive-producer of Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman. Prior to conceiving and founding this free, public series, Victoria was a featured host and contributor on Chicago Public Radio for two decades, beginning as a free-lance arts reviewer.

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Recorded on November 6, 2010.

In Must You Go? Lady Antonia Fraser recounts the life she shared with the internationally renowned dramatist and Nobel Prize–winner Harold Pinter. An insightful account of their three decades together, Must You Go? begins when Fraser was the wife of a member of Parliament and mother of six, and Pinter was married to a distinguished actress. Over the years, they experienced much joy, a shared devotion to their work, crises and laughter, and, in the end, great courage and love as Pinter battled the illness that eventually took his life in late 2008. Must You Go? is based on Fraser’s recollections and on the diaries she has kept since October 1968. The author of many historical works, among them Mary, Queen of Scots; Cromwell, the Lord Protector; and, most recently, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, she has received numerous literary awards. Victoria Lautman, longtime Chicago radio host and formerly of WFMT’s Writers on the Record, interviews Fraser.

This program is generously underwritten by Sonia Marschak.

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  • leaders & thinkers

    Antonia Fraser Official website of Lady Antonia Fraser
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    "A Perfect Match"Harold Pinter's biographer, Michael Billington, reacts to Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
  • online resources

    The Times Ginny Dougary interviews Lady Fraser for The Times

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