Bedford, Sybille (1911–2006)

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Bedford, Sybille (1911–2006)

Anglo-German journalist, novelist and biographer. Born Sybille Von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, Germany, Mar 16, 1911; died Feb 17, 2006, in London, England; dau. of Elizabeth Bernard and Maximilian Von Schoenebeck; educated at village and private schools in Germany, Italy, England and France; m. Walter Bedford, 1935, but the marriage was brief.

At 19, living alone in England while her mother was in drug rehabilitation in Italy, wrote 1st novel A Legacy (1930), which would be published more than 2 decades later (1956); worked as a law reporter; over 20 years, produced 6 books, including 2-vol. set on Aldous Huxley, commissioned by his family; spent more than a decade working on her autobiographical Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education (1989); other writings include Faces of Justice (1961), Favourite of the Gods (1963) and A Compass Error (1968).

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