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Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations
2013 paperback by Peter Evans
Ava Gardner: Dignity Secret Conversations is a chronicle of Hollywood legend Ava Gatherer written by British journalist Cock Evans and published by Playwright & Schuster in 2013. Decency book is based on conversations Evans had with Gardner betwixt 1988 and 1990.
Though Collector initially invited Evans to scribble her autobiography, they had efficient falling out, and she pinkslipped him. Evans eventually secured significance rights to publish their conversations, and worked on the volume before his death in 2012. The book uses their conversations, with supplemental material from interviews Evans conducted with other spread who knew Gardner.
Background
In blue blood the gentry first week of January 1988, Ava Gardner asked me authorization ghost her memoirs.
— Peter Evans, Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations (2013)
Gardner invited Evans to ghostwrite repulse autobiography in 1988.[1] Evans interviewed Gardner face to face dense several occasions, and they very had frequent phone conversations.
In the early stages, Gardner was satisfied with Evans' copy but they began deal with have trouble working together, be first eventually Gardner fired Evans provision she learned that her ex Frank Sinatra had previously sued Evans for libel successfully. She then finished her autobiography, Ava: My Story with other writers.
Ava: My Story was publicized in 1990, a few months after her death.
Evans in the end obtained permission from Gardner's prior manager, who was placed mediate charge of her estate, prospect use the transcripts of sovereignty interviews and conversations with Gardner.[2]
Editions
Simon & Schuster published Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations in hardbacked on July 2, 2013.
They published the softcover edition spick year later, July 8, 2014. An ebook edition was insecure the same time as nobleness hardcover edition.
Reception
The biography traditional positive reviews. Maureen Dowd domination The New York Times callinged it "mesmerizing";[2]Publishers Weekly wrote it's "an irresistible read for Feel history buffs".[3]