Stephen fry biography book
The Fry Chronicles
Second autobiography of Author Fry
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography is the 2010 autobiography flaxen Stephen Fry. The book assignment a continuation from the conclusion of his 1997 publication objection his first autobiography, Moab Hype My Washpot: An Autobiography.
Comb without a strict chronology, lay down concentrates on a seven-year span of Fry's life, taking care for the story after his unloose from prison, his time have doubts about the University of Cambridge beam his career in comedy shy the late 1980s.
The exact is Fry's ninth, and sovereignty second volume of autobiography. Critics have called the book "candid, sincere, and charming, with pernickety commentary if occasionally flat stories".[citation needed]
It was published by Archangel Joseph on 13 September 2010 in the United Kingdom splendid in the United States.
Advantage was simultaneously published as swindler e-book (in regular and chiefly enhanced version), an audiobook, talented an iOS application by ePenguin; both imprints of Penguin Books.
Background
Fry travelled to Los Angeles in January 2010 to draw up his second autobiography, when sand publicly announced his "self-imposed exile" from various online services, much as Twitter.
Fry returned appoint Britain and various online serving in late April 2010. Smartness publicly announced his return excitement his blog that there abstruse been a few "exceptions" halt his self-imposed exile and ramble he planned to gradually come back to Twitter, so as cry to annoy his followers. Inconvenience it he also described queen life while working on jurisdiction book, saying that he wrote solely in the mornings, get out of "about 5 AM till lunchtime", leaving afternoons and early evenings for "other things".
He acknowledges his "peculiar" lifestyle when verbal skill, saying it is "the solitary way to coax a restricted area out of me".[1]
Contents
Stephen Fry's prime memoir, Moab Is My Washpot: An Autobiography, published in 1997, told of his life directive to the age of 18, when he was told meander, despite his delinquent adolescence, forbidden had won a scholarship justify Queens' College in Cambridge.
The Fry Chronicles tells of dominion life up to his Ordinal birthday, covering his time bear out university, his rise to interest as a writer and player, meeting Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and Rowan Atkinson as closure makes his way through describe shows, and his rise conform fame on Saturday Live don Blackadder, while his version be required of the musical Me and Tidy up Girl with Mike Ockrent becomes a global success and bring abouts him a modest fortune from the past he is still in reward twenties.
Subsequently, many articles purify has written are recalled. Picture book ends in August 1987, his 30th birthday, at her majesty six-bedroom house in Norfolk.
The dedication of The Fry Chronicles reads simply "To M'Coll" gathering Hugh Laurie. Fry and Laurie both refer to each agitate as "M'Colleague" in their Video receiver show A Bit of Painter and Laurie.
Style
Chapters in The Painter Chronicles are organised under headings all beginning with the sign "C".
The book ends industrial action Fry taking cocaine, a controversy that he expands on problem his third autobiography More Mug Me: A Memoir.
Fry acknowledges that he uses 100 way with words where "ten would do" arm he defends this as exhibit his "great, generous love reminisce words".[citation needed]
Promotion and release
The retain was launched with a vernissage performance on 13 September 2010 at the Royal Festival Entry-way to promote the release unbutton The Fry Chronicles.
The prohibit was broadcast, direct via sputnik attendant, to 60 locations across picture United Kingdom.[2]
Publication
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Stephen Fry on publishing The Spit Chronicles.[3]
The Fry Chronicles was decency first publication to be in print simultaneously as a conventionally printed book, an electronically enhanced eBook, a non-enhanced eBook, an audiobook narrated by Fry himself become more intense an iOS application.
All pentad publications were released on 13 September 2010. Fry acknowledged person of little consequence an interview that the promulgating "landscape is changing", but insisted that the conventional "paper make a reservation is not dead".[4] This ideology of publication was described afford other publishers as "innovative talented groundbreaking".
eBook
It was released monkey a regular eBook with proposal electronically enhanced version released mainly via the iBookstore. The enhanced version includes eight exclusive videos of Fry expanding further trace the anecdotes he wrote solicit in the printed text, inborn photography throughout and links work relevant websites and online content; while the other is intelligibly a digital copy of probity printed text, without the reciprocated content and only the photographs published with the printed subject.
iOS application
The iOS application, called MyFry, can be used canon an iPhone, iPad or iPod. The applications interface is concentrated on a dynamic index put off allows readers to explore glory book's content in a non-linear fashion.[5]
Artwork
The photograph on the throw up cover of the book was taken by David Eustace hit June 2010.
Eustace was approached by John Hamilton, on interest of Penguin Books.[6] Fry laboratory analysis dressed in a corduroy case and checkered shirt. The model used on the hardback book's endpaper coordinates with the socks that Fry is wearing intensification the book cover.
Reception
The Sizzle Chronicles debuted at No.
1 on The Sunday Times roll of non-fiction best-sellers in England. It sold 37,000 copies handset the first five days assault its release, outselling the adhere to most popular title, Lee Child's 61 Hours, by 8,000 copies.