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Allegra Huston

Allegra Huston
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Allegra Huston

ALLEGRA HUSTON was born in London and raised in Ireland, Long Island, and Los Angeles. She has worked with Chatto & Windus publishers in London and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, where she was Editorial Director from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Rise above it
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My life in 8 words: "Happy, riverine, unplanned, panoramic, sunlit, small-town, cosmopolitan"
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Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Rise above it Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. French Meadow Bakery hemp bread, toasted, with Enchanted Valley sorrel spread made in Alamosa, CO. Q. What are your 5 favorite songs? A. "I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. "Tumbling Dice" - Rolling Stones. "We Belong Together" - Rickie Lee Jones. "Love and Happiness" - Al Green. "Cancion Mixteca" - Harry Dean Stanton. Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you? A. Loyalty; sense of humor; enthusiasm. Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. This changes. Right now, Camille Desmoulins in Hilary Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety. Learn more about Allegra Huston

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Sky Arts, July 16, 2010
...Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Hitch-22 – A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens Trespass by Rose Tremain Love Child by Allegra Huston For your chance to win these books, simply answer the question below. You must be 16 years or over to take part. This...
PRWeb, June 30, 2010
...and ended up re-inventing their lives. The women met on a website that posted an article by writer Allegra Huston, soon after the singer rocketed to national fame on American Idol. They became fascinated with understanding his impact, and commented...
Guardian.co.uk, June 4, 2010
...The writer and editor Allegra Huston tells Mariella Frostrup how she found out that the film director John Huston wasn't her biological father...
Guardian.co.uk, June 3, 2010
...shot at writing about rural England in the 1960s in his new book, Notwithstanding. Alongside Louis tonight are Allegra Huston, author of the memoir Love Child, and the current children's laureate Anthony Browne. Tomorrow, Queen...
AFP via Yahoo!, March 22, 2010
...happy marriages and fulfilling lives, they were the most prolific of glambertina bloggers who found each other after Allegra Huston posted a blog question What Is It About Adam Lambert? on the wowOwow web site. The resulting flurry of analytical,...
Guardian.co.uk, February 27, 2010
...These memories from a minor member of the Huston clan prove bewitching It would be easy to dismiss Allegra Huston's book as another gilded memoir of life in the shadow of celebrity. But although Allegra Huston was born into blue-blood Hollywood - the man...
Times Online, January 14, 2010
...Dermot Healy, Alexandra Heminsley, Alistair Hicks, Rebecca Hicks, Paul Hilder, Peter Hobbs, Rachel Holmes, David Hornback, Irfan Husain, Allegra Huston, Marina Hyde, John Irving, Hala Jaber, Keren James, Liz Jesen, Ghalia Kabbani, Susan Kamil, Ed Kashi,...