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The Fry Chronicles An Autobiography
by Stephen Fry
Celebrated actor, comedian, and writer Stephen Fry offers a deeply personal and entertaining account of his life.
This autobiography covers his years at Cambridge, his rise to fame, and his struggles with addiction and self-discovery.
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance, and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain.
Fry's storytelling intertwines humor with pain, revealing an honest journey of friendships, professional triumphs, and personal demons.
He recounts his relationships with Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Rowan Atkinson, and his rise to fame on shows like Saturday Live and Blackadder.
Critics have praised The Fry Chronicles for its candid, sincere, and charming narrative, with insightful commentary on fame, the notion of public versus private self, and the challenges of overcoming personal obstacles.
This autobiography covers his years at Cambridge, his rise to fame, and his struggles with addiction and self-discovery.
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance, and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain.
Fry's storytelling intertwines humor with pain, revealing an honest journey of friendships, professional triumphs, and personal demons.
He recounts his relationships with Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Rowan Atkinson, and his rise to fame on shows like Saturday Live and Blackadder.
Critics have praised The Fry Chronicles for its candid, sincere, and charming narrative, with insightful commentary on fame, the notion of public versus private self, and the challenges of overcoming personal obstacles.
Biography & Autobiography
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERHarry N. Abrams
LENGTH448
LANGUAGEEN
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has become known to American audiences for his recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Since the publication of his first novel, *The Liar* (1993), Fry has written three additional novels, several non-fiction works and an autobiography. *Making History* (1997) is partly set in an alternative universe where Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a rather more effective Führer. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. *The Hippopotamus* (1994) centers around Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. *The Stars' Tennis Balls* (2000) is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fry's book, *The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within*, is a guide to writing poetry. In the United Kingdom, he is a well-known narrator of audiobooks, notably the Harry Potter series. He has recorded audio versions of works by Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, A. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge and Douglas Adams, as well as several of his own books. When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under an alias, Williver Hendry, editor of *A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey*, a field close to Fry's heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks of existence. On 26 May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following the character Donald Trefusis (a character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes. After its release, it reached No. 1 on the UK Album Chart album chart list. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
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The Fry Chronicles An Autobiography
by Stephen Fry
Celebrated actor, comedian, and writer Stephen Fry offers a deeply personal and entertaining account of his life.
This autobiography covers his years at Cambridge, his rise to fame, and his struggles with addiction and self-discovery.
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance, and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain.
Fry's storytelling intertwines humor with pain, revealing an honest journey of friendships, professional triumphs, and personal demons.
He recounts his relationships with Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Rowan Atkinson, and his rise to fame on shows like Saturday Live and Blackadder.
Critics have praised The Fry Chronicles for its candid, sincere, and charming narrative, with insightful commentary on fame, the notion of public versus private self, and the challenges of overcoming personal obstacles.
This autobiography covers his years at Cambridge, his rise to fame, and his struggles with addiction and self-discovery.
Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist, and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be found out and flung away. Instead, university life offered him love, romance, and the chance to stand on a stage and entertain.
Fry's storytelling intertwines humor with pain, revealing an honest journey of friendships, professional triumphs, and personal demons.
He recounts his relationships with Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Rowan Atkinson, and his rise to fame on shows like Saturday Live and Blackadder.
Critics have praised The Fry Chronicles for its candid, sincere, and charming narrative, with insightful commentary on fame, the notion of public versus private self, and the challenges of overcoming personal obstacles.
Biography & Autobiography
RELEASED2012
PUBLISHERHarry N. Abrams
LENGTH448
LANGUAGEEN
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is a British actor, writer, journalist, comedian, television presenter and film director. He first came to attention in the 1982 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation, "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry and Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster. As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the Blackadder television series and is the host of the quiz show, QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has become known to American audiences for his recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones. Since the publication of his first novel, *The Liar* (1993), Fry has written three additional novels, several non-fiction works and an autobiography. *Making History* (1997) is partly set in an alternative universe where Adolf Hitler's father is made infertile and his replacement proves a rather more effective Führer. The book won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. *The Hippopotamus* (1994) centers around Edward (Ted/Tedward) Wallace and his stay at his old friend Lord Logan's country manor in Norfolk. *The Stars' Tennis Balls* (2000) is a modern retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fry's book, *The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within*, is a guide to writing poetry. In the United Kingdom, he is a well-known narrator of audiobooks, notably the Harry Potter series. He has recorded audio versions of works by Roald Dahl, Michael Bond, A. A. Milne, Anthony Buckeridge and Douglas Adams, as well as several of his own books. When writing a book review for Tatler, Fry wrote under an alias, Williver Hendry, editor of *A Most Peculiar Friendship: The Correspondence of Lord Alfred Douglas and Jack Dempsey*, a field close to Fry's heart as an Oscar Wilde enthusiast. Once a columnist in The Listener and The Daily Telegraph, he now writes a weekly technology column in the Saturday edition of The Guardian. His blog attracted more than 300,000 visitors in its first two weeks of existence. On 26 May 2009, Fry unveiled The Dongle of Donald Trefusis, an audiobook series following the character Donald Trefusis (a character from Fry's novel The Liar and from the BBC Radio 4 series Loose Ends), set over 12 episodes. After its release, it reached No. 1 on the UK Album Chart album chart list. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry
