Gavin Lambert was born and educated in England. He is the author of both biographies and novels, including Inside Daisy Clover and The Goodbye People. His screenplays include The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone starring Warren Beatty and Vivien Leigh, Inside Daisy Clover starring Robert Redford and Natalie Wood, the Oscar-nominated Sons and Lovers, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Lambert lived in Tangier from 1974 to 1988 and presently lives in Los Angeles.
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First published in 1971, The Goodby People is perhaps the greatest novel ever written about post-Manson, pre-Disney Los Angeles. 'The bisexual draft dodger living on the skids, the glamorous young widow in search of enlightenment, the skinny gamine... SEE MORE