Q: When did you first develop a love of literature and writing in particular? A: As a boy I loved reading and immersing myself into imaginative worlds. From an early age, it seemed natural to start ...
W.H. Auden was, in the final decade of his life, an extraordinarily unattractive man, and was keenly aware of it. "My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain," he told an interviewer in ...