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     AUTHOR INTERVIEW: LAURA THOMPSON

    Laura Thompson studied acting and dance before turning to nonfiction writing as a career. She has written books about greyhound and horse racing, historical true crimes, a memoir about her publican grandmother, and biographies of Agatha Christie and the Mitford sisters. Her biography of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate, was reissued by Pegasus Books in Incredibly talented, Laura also made a tv movie about her return to ballet as an adult, has filmed several documentaries about Agatha Christie, and writes for Town & Country, Harpers Bazaar, and other publications. 

    Laura talked with Rose City Reader about the Mitford sisters, her biography of Nancy Mitford, what makes a good biography, and more:

    There are plenty of Mitford fans, but please give us a thumbnail introduction of Nancy and her family for new readers.

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    Laura Thompson (British author)

    Laura Thompson is an English writer and biographer. Her first book The Dogs: A Personal History of Greyhound Racing won the Somerset Maugham Award. She has also written acclaimed biographies of Nancy Mitford and Agatha Christie, and true-crime books on the disappearance of Lord Lucan and on the s cause celebres Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters.[1][2][3]

    Early life

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    As a teenager, Thompson intended to go into theatre and attended Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, where she trained in dance. She went on to study English at Merton College, Oxford.[4]

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    Books

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    • The Dogs: A personal history of greyhound racing ()
    • Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography ()
    • Agatha Christie: An English Mystery () (re-published in as Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life)
    • The Six: The lives of the Mitford sisters () (alternate title Take Six Girls)
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      Laura Thompson


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      Poetry, Nonfiction, Psychology


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