Anna: The biography
by Amy Odell (Allen & Unwin, $39.99)
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on behind Anna Wintour’s enormous dark sunglasses and blunt bob, then you’ve come to the right place. Amy Odell, a fashion journalist and author of nails the legendary editor in this fat tome. Wintour, the inspiration for the 2006 film declined to be interviewed for this biography, but not so 250 or so of her closest friends, collaborators and enemies. Odell charts the remarkable life and career of the woman whose prickly personality earned her the nickname “Nuclear Wintour” – from her tomboyish London childhood, where fashion was
