About the Author

Born on the East Coast, at the age of four Anne Edwards moved with her parents to Hollywood, where she spent most of her childhood and young adult years, first as a performer, then as a film writer. The event of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist in the late 1940s and early 1950s caused her to leave home and find work abroad. Fate placed her in London, where she spent the major part of the next two decades.

Her return was a second act few of her colleagues enjoyed. She very quickly became a best-selling author, first of novels, then of numerous critically acclaimed biographies that include Vivien Leigh, Margaret Mitchell, Katharine Hepburn, Sonya Tolstoy, Queen Elizabeth and her sister, Princess Margaret, Princess Diana, Maria Callas, and two volumes on Ronald Reagan (Early Reagan and The Reagans).

She gained much media attention as the author of the much-discussed and never published (due to estate problems) sequel to Margaret Mitchell’s immortal novel Gone with the Wind. She is also a past president of the Authors Guild.

She finally has returned to California, where she lives with her husband, author and musical theater historian Stephen Citron.