In 1989 Marc Jacobs becomes the chief designer of Perry Ellis. “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.”– A typical quote of the exceptional talent. He manages to combine the beautiful with the bizarre. Together with his business partner Robert Duffy Marc Jacobs launches the first collection under his own name Marc Jacobs in 1986. Numerous other awards such as the Perry Ellis Golden Timbre Award follow soon. That includes the two Henson novelisations, and Edward & Mrs Simpson, Dickens of London, and Lady Jane.Fashion by Marc Jacobs is authenticated by REBELLE Marc Jacobs – the designerĪt the prestigious Parsons School of Design Marc Jacobs, who was born in 1960, graduates with honours in 1984. Everything can change, as Heraclitus spotted.īut I can't do anything about reissuing titles in which I don't own the rights. I am thinking of reprinting, maybe e-booking, some of my titles, but that could change.
To sample excerpts of the two novels and the two plays, and see how-to-buy details, click on them in the menu. So will two of my plays of which the publisher has a few copies left. The publisher has also agreed to make a limited number of new hardback copies available. The other is The Dangerous Memoir of Citizen Sade, which I have made available on Kindle. It is now published for the first time in English. One is Wagner, my novelisation of Charles Wood's tremendous screenplay, which has existed only in German and Italian translations That's why I set it up, with the help of my magical friend Caroline, who guided me through cyberspace as Virgil guided Dante through Hell. This website gave them a chance of being born in the flesh again. See Two novels of mine have become wraiths. This is theatre that matters, and The Observer the most magical moment of the year.Ī Stoppard-based musical I've written with the composer David Lyon, Albert's Bridge, is looking for an enterprising company to produce it. The Sunday Independent called it a terrific show, The Guardian a beautifully written script. My most successful stage work (so far) has been Up the Feeder, Down the 'Mouth, for the Bristol Old Vic in 1997, revived 2001.
With its humour derived from Terry Jones's screenplay. 3 on the New York Times bestseller list, but I'm especially fond of the latter, Thanks to the success of the movie, the first of those went to No. The best-known of my books are two novelisations I did for Jim Henson, The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. My memoir, Wordsmith, was published by the Redcliffe Press in May, 2012. They are listed on Wikipedia, together with brief biographical notes. I've published a dozen novels and novelisations,Īnd had 20 plays and music-theatre pieces staged or televised. Smith who writes stuff with catchy titles like Excitation of He+ to the 2 2S and 2 2P states by electron impact. So I added H, for Hockley, my grandmother's maiden name, and now it's too late to emend it,Įven though I have come across another A.C.H. I perhaps should have invented a nom de plume, but why shouldn't the Smiths put their name on books? Smith, the only initials on my birth certificate,īecause I was reporting cricket for The Times then and A.C. When I published my first book, The Crowd, I could not settle for being just A.C. I explained that I knew of four other writers called Anthony Smith. The initials were a turn-off, notwithstanding T.S. Photo: Caroline Novelist, playwright, poet One reads, because he writesĪnother writer once told me I'd made a mistake in choosing my writing name. One or two people have told me my face reminds them of Kurt Vonnegut.
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