In all he displays his unquenchable desire to entertain, combined with an erudition and a use of language which reveals his masterly control over it. Stephen Fry is the epitome of the Renaissance Man and is fast becoming what we in Britain like to describe as a ‘national treasure.’ Possessed with a brilliant mind, a natural wit and an extraordinary verbal facility, Fry can never be ignored he demands to be listened to, read and admired.Īs a writer Fry has produced a work of collected journalism, an autobiography, and five novels. One can have no doubt that he would succeed. Indeed, so adept is he at so many things that Clive Anderson has even suggested that Fry would be able to turn his hand to football management. Stephen Fry is a phenomenon: writer, actor, comedian, director, librettist, quiz show host and award ceremony compare, there seems to be no end to his ability to excel at whatever he chooses to do. His memoir More Fool Me: A Memoir was published by Michael Joseph in 2014.

He is also the author of two books of autobiography - Moab Is My Washpot (1997) and The Fry Chronicles (2010). The Ode Less Travelled - a book about poetry - was published in 2005. Stephen Fry's Incomplete History of Classical Music (2004), written with Tim Lihoreau, is based on his award-winning series on Classic FM and is an irreverent romp through the history of classical music. His book Stephen Fry in America was published in 2008. Stephen Fry's five novels are The Liar (1991), The Hippopotamus (1994), Making History (1996), The Stars' Tennis Balls (2000) and Revenge: A Novel (2003). He has also published a collection of work entitled Paperweight (1992) and Rescuing the Spectacled Bear: A Peruvian Journey (2002) – his diary of the making of a documentary on the plight of the spectacled bears of Peru. He has written for television and screen, and as a newspaper columnist – for the Literary Review, Daily Telegraph and The Listener.

He wrote again for theatre in 1984 when he rewrote Noel Gay’s musical Me and My Girl (1990). This was nominated for a Tony Award in 1987. His first play, Latin! or Tobacco and Boys, written for Footlights, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh Festival in 1980. He attended Queen’s College Cambridge from 1979, joining the Cambridge Footlights Dramatic Club where he met Hugh Laurie, with whom he forged a highly successful writing partnership. Comedian, actor and writer Stephen Fry was born in 1957 in London and brought up in Norfolk.

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