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Interviews: Hunter Davies: Scribes' elder statesman

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20040104
Author:Aidan Smith

ON A freezing cold afternoon, the celebrated biographer of William Thackeray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Daphne du Maurier opens the door, shows me up the stairs and ... hang on a minute, let's run through those names again: Thackeray, Browning, Du Maurier, not a bad midfield trio, educated left feet all round, and I claim the distinction of being first to get them onto the sports pages.

But, you know, maybe Hunter Davies beat me to it. He should have done: his wife is the selfsame biographer, Margaret Forster. In that case, perhaps he and I should settle this with an arm-wrestle, or at ...

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