Books THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
fell in love with Oscar Wilde at the age of ten. In 1960, when I was 13, I embarked, with two other friends from the Thalia School Even heavily cut, it was very hard work. The string work required to pass cucumber sandwiches between puppets was way beyond us. But we loved the dialogue and we raised a fair amount of money for charity. At Cambridge University, much to the horror of the puritanical English department, I did a dissertation on Wilde. Generous, witty, and original, Wilde’s been with me all the way.
