Author responds to family's unrest over controversial new Anthony Bourdain book
Author Charles Leerhsen has responded to criticism from the family of celebrated chef, writer and world traveler Anthony Bourdain condemning his unauthorized biography of the "No Reservations" star that includes some of the last text messages Bourdain sent before dying by suicide in 2018.
"I set out to write a full biography, from birth to death, of Tony Bourdain and along the way I obtained texts and emails," Leerhsen told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. "I used these like biographers of a previous era used personal letters. I didn't steal them; they were given to me by a source or sources, the way letters have
