Niv the authorized biography of david niven

  • For more than 40 years, David Niven portrayed onscreen the impeccable values of a lost breed of English gentlemen - handsome, elegantly dressed, well-mannered, and utterly charming.
  • A fresh, revealing, funny and poignant portrait of a brave and brilliant man.
  • Twenty years after his death David Niven is remembered with warmth, affection and as one of the funniest and most lovable men who ever lived.

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    Graham Lord has published nineteen books: nine novels, seven biographies, two autobiographies, and an anthology of his short stories, essays, travel articles and journalism, 'Lord of the Files.' All of them are available as Amazon Kindle ebooks, and descriptions and reviews of all his books can be read at www.graham-lord.com and www.fernhillbooks.co.uk.

    His most recent novel is a comic adventure/love story about a small Caribbean island, 'Under a Hammock Moon,' and his most recent memoir describes more than a hundred writers, actors, politicians and other celebrated people whom he met during forty years as a Fleet Street journalist, 'Lord's Ladies and Gentlemen: 100 Legends of the 20th Century.'

    His books have been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Russian and Chinese.

    Born in 1943 in Southern Rhodesia and also educated in what is now Zimbabwe, he was raised in Mozambique, took an honours degree in History at Cambridge, edited the university newspaper Varsity and joined the Sunday Express in London, where he spent 23 years as Literary Editor, wrote a weekly column about books and interviewed almost every major English language author of the 1960s to 1990s, from P. G. Wodehouse and Graham Greene to Muriel Spark and

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    By Graham Lord (published in 2003)

    Like any self respecting, self appointed film buff I knew the basic facts of the David Niven story and had read his two books, The Moons a Balloon and Bring On The Empty Horses. Like most others, I enjoyed them immensely. Who knows when I picked this bio up as I buy so many used copies in my journeys of hunting through second hand bookshops but I felt it was time to read someone else’s take on the career of the dapper Englishman. The fact that the author, Graham Lord had the co-operation of Niv’s friends including Robert Wagner and family make this not only a good read but a reliable window into the life of the one time Oscar winner.

    The book recounts Niven’s troubled years as a youth trying to find his place in the school systems. His Father was killed  during WW1 leaving his Mother to raise her children on her own though she would marry into wealth and nobility. A military career looked to be David’s future but he’d eventually give up the service looking to secure a career in acting. Of course my interest is the Hollywood years and the film career that lay ahead for young David. Success under the direction of Samuel Goldwyn began and with it a stormy relationship between the producer and actor. The Errol