Clive James died on November 24, 2019, nearly a decade after being diagnosed with leukemia.
Born in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1939, he moved to England in the early 1960s and stayed. He began his writing career as television critic for The Observer, and over the following decades wrote as a literary and film critic, poet, memoirist, travel writer, novelist, and cultural critic. “Wide-ranging” is too weak to capture the career of a man who produced a documentary on Shakespeare and interviewed Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy on one of his many British television programs.
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