[ noun ] English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990) <noun.person>
If this BBC/A&E adaptation of Durrell's famous memoir has half the charm of the book it will be too good to miss.
He is the younger brother of the famed novelist Lawrence Durrell, author of the "Alexandria Quartet" and other works.
In 1988, several love letters written by Miller to Hollywood actress Brenda Venus, part of Durrell's personal papers, were sold at a London auction.
The letters will be sold later this month at Sotheby's as part of the papers and books of the British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell, 76, a longtime friend of Miller.
"Classicism means becoming a spokesman for the cosmology of your time, and what the hell was the cosmology of our age if it wasn't Einstein and Freud," Durrell said in a 1982 interview with The Associated Press.
Durrell had been fatigued for about two weeks, a family member said, and the author said in a 1986 interview that he suffered from emphysema.
Durrell described the letters as "full of of insight, full of fun." Two years ago, several love letters written by Miller to Hollywood actress Brenda Venus, part of Durrell's personal papers, were sold at a London auction.
Durrell described the letters as "full of of insight, full of fun." Two years ago, several love letters written by Miller to Hollywood actress Brenda Venus, part of Durrell's personal papers, were sold at a London auction.
His youngest daughter, Sappho-Jane, died in 1985, Durrell's oldest daughter, Penelope Berengaria survives him.