Rogues, Villains & Eccentrics
An A-Z of Roguish Britons Through the Ages
By Willie Donaldson
December 2008
Chambers Harrap Ltd
ISBN: 9780550104960
683 pages, Illustrated
$29.95 Paper
Willie Donaldson led an extraordinary life by anyone's reckoning. A candidate for inclusion in this book himself under any of the three categories, he produced Beyond the Fringe, had affairs with Carly Simon and Sarah Miles in the 60s, wrote the 70s bestseller The Henry Root Letters, became a crack addict late in life and was generally an irredeemable master of bad behaviour. However, he was also regarded as the funniest writer of his generation. This book is perhaps his most accomplished work.