| ID: | 23408 |
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| Entry Text: | Tolstoy, Nikolai. Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist, 1914-1949. New York: Norton; London: Century, 2005, 512 pp. First of 2-vol. planned; by stepson of O'Brian; exclusive use of O'Brian papers; apologetics; O'Brian was not who he claimed to be; see Tolstoy letter, TLS, December 2007: complained about ODNB entry on O'Brian & biography by Dean King. |