5/24/2023 0 Comments Bright Young People by D.J. TaylorIt examines the symbiotic relationship between a loose-knit group of partygoers and a media that, in gossip columns and mocking denunciations, made them the first celebrities who were famous, in our contemporary sense, for being famous.īy the most generous estimate, there were never more than 2,000 souls among the ranks popularly known at the time as the Bright Young People. The engaging Bright Young People, written by a critic and novelist best known for his biography of George Orwell, reads like a case study in youth culture, trendsetting, log-rolling and cultivated bohemianism. Taylor has created that rarest of books - one you can safely recommend both to scholars of Evelyn Waugh and the entourage of Paris Hilton. Taylor won the Whitbread Biography Award for his 2003 book Orwell.Ĭombining diaries, biographies, news reports and novels to paint the social life of 1920s London, D.J.
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