"I know no other biographer except Boswell who reveals so intimate and vivid a knowledge of the beliefs, doubts, certainties, strangenesses, quiddities, strengths and achievements of his subject as does O'Connor"
Sir Harold Hobson, Sunday Times
Sir Harold Hobson, Sunday Times
"Garry O'Connor is a literary luminary who has written excellent books on Sean O'Casey, Laurence Olivier and French theatre...his biography of William Shakespeare was received with all the fire and brimstone that naturally falls upon someone who tries to do something rich and strange with our most prized of cultural assets" (Time Out)