Big Deal: 2confessions of a Professional Poker Player by Anthony Holden

Anthony Holden

Holden, a veteran biographer of figures from Shakespeare to Prince Charles, delivers a colorful and eventful portrait of one of the longest-lived members of the Romantic era, whose chief Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

Long before poker had achieved today's stratospheric level of popularity, British writer Holden chronicled the challenges and frustrations of a year on the professional poker circuit, in Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

Literate sophistication and urbane wit inform this unusual tale of a British newsman and author ( Charles, Prince of Wales ) who spent 1989 as a professional poker player. More than a chronicle of Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

A comprehensive and marvelously entertaining history of the winners and losers, behind-the-scenes machinations, controversies and rituals surrounding the Academy Awards over the past six decades. Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

Biographer of British royalty, Holden ( Charles, Prince of Wales , etc.), here splendidly conveys the dynamic, versatile and appealing character of the first lord of British theater and international Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

In Charles, Prince of Wales , British journalist Holden recorded the life of the heir to the throne from his birth in 1948 to age 30, where this sequel begins. Stylishly presented and informed, the Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

``Biographer of British royalty, Holden here splendidly conveys the dynamic, versatile and appealing character of the first lord of British theater and international film,'' wrote PW. Photos. Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

Holden ( Prince Charles ) covers each of the award ceremonies in rich detail, from the first Oscar dinner in 1929 to the orgy of self-congratulation in 1991. Devotees of Oscar trivia will be Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

There have been biographies galore of the great Russian composer, beginning with the massive but highly selective one by his brother Modest, published less than a decade after Pyotr Ilyich's Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

The latest in Holden's series of biographies of the Prince of Wales published to coincide with his 30th, 40th and now 50th birthdays, this is a chatty, personal look at a man with whom Holden no Continue reading »

Anthony Holden

First-time bardographer (and biographer of Olivier and Prince Charles), Holden colorfully if superficially fills in the blanks between Shakespeare's vast output of verse and the paltry official Continue reading »

Big Deal: 2confessions of a Professional Poker Player

Anthony Holden. Penguin Books, $10 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012246-6