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Bedford, Sybille (1911– ), author, whose best-known novel, The Legacy (1956), is a sophisticated account of the complex matrimonial and financial affairs of a wealthy German family in the years immediately preceding the First World War. A Favourite of the Gods (1962) and A Compass Error (1968), both novels, were followed by a two-volume biography of A. Huxley (1973, 1974). The autobiographical Jigsaw was published in 1989.

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Sybille Bedford

Sybille Bedford 1911-2006, English writer, b. Charlottenberg, Germany, as Sybille von Schoenebeck. She worked as a legal reporter for various publications, covering more than 100 trials including the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt (1963-65) and the trial of Jack Ruby in Dallas (1964). She also wrote books on food and wine and on travel, e.g., her first published book, A Visit to Don Otavio (1953), an account of a trip to Mexico. Written in an elegant prose style, her four novels- A Legacy (1956), A Favorite of the Gods (1963), A Compass Error (1968), and Jigsaw (1989)-are in many ways sociohistorical, and largely concern the interaction between character and events. Bedford, for 35 years a close friend of Aldous Huxley , wrote his official biography (2 vol., 1973-74).

Bibliography: See her Quicksands: A Memoir (2005).

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