Wendy Leigh

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Wendy Leigh (born September 13, 1950 in London ; died May 29, 2016 there ) was a British society journalist and author.

Life

Wendy Leigh's mother Marion Charles (Czarlinski) (1927–2015) arrived in Great Britain in 1939 on a Kindertransport . Only she and her mother survived the German persecution of Jews in their family. Marion Charles wrote a diary that Wendy got to read at the age of nine. It was published in Germany in 2012 under the title I was a lucky child . Wendy Leigh emphasized in her foreword that it was not the mother who suffered from persecution fears, but herself:

“When I inadvertently referred to my mother as a 'Holocaust survivor' a few years ago, she vehemently disagreed. 'No, Wendy, that doesn't apply to me,' she said. 'I wasn't a victim of the Holocaust. I escaped. I was lucky. I survived.' My mother actually survived those dark years. But the price was high and the wounds were deep. You couldn't see or look at my mother's wounds. For a while I suffered from nightmares about my mother's past, she didn't! "

- Wendy Leigh

Leigh wrote for the tabloids Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph , among others . She has published three books on sex topics in partnership, a trilogy of sex novels ( Unraveled ), several biographies of stars such as David Bowie , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Patrick Swayze and she has been ghostwriting books by Zsa Zsa Gabor , Shirley Jones and Christopher Ciccone, a brother of the pop singer Madonna .

Leigh was married to the journalist Stephen Karten for 19 years. She died five months after her mother's unacceptable death at the age of 65 from falling from the balcony of her London apartment.

Fonts (selection)

  • What makes a woman GIB, good in bed?
    • What does a woman do, good in bed? Translation of Keto by Waberer . Munich: Goldmann, 1978
  • What makes a man GIB, good in bed? London: Muller, 1980
    • What makes a man good in bed . Translation Eva Malsch. Munich: Goldmann, 1980
  • The infidelity report . New York: W. Morrow, 1985
    • I'm cheating - are you going with me? : Infidelity in the partnership; a report . Translation Wolfram Mergard. Munich: Goldmann, 1986
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor: One lifetime is not enough . Ghostwriter. New York: Delacorte Press, 1991, ISBN 0-385-29882-X
  • Arnold: The Early Years . Sphere, 1991
  • with Stephen cards: Liza: born a star: a biography . New York: Signet, 1993
    • with Stephen Cards: Liza: the life of Liza Minnelli . Translation by Bernd Samland. Berlin: Beltz, 1995
  • Edward Windsor, royal enigma: the true story of the seventh in line to the British throne . New York: Pocket Books, 1999
  • The secret letters of Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy . New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Griffin, 2004
    • Jackie & Marilyn: the secret correspondence . Novel. Translation by Annette Wetzel. Munich: DTV, 2004
  • Prince Charming: the John F. Kennedy Jr. story . 2007
  • Christopher Ciccone: Life With My Sister Madonna . Ghostwriter. 2008
    • Christopher Ciccone: My sister Madonna and me . Translation Thorsten Wortmann, Madeleine Lampe. Berlin: Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2014
  • True Grace: the life and times of an American princess . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008
  • Patrick Swayze. One last dance . New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4391-4997-3
  • Unraveled by her . New York: Pocket Star, 2015
  • Bowie: the biography . New York: Gallery Books, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Bäßler: Marion Charles. A lucky child looking for a home , Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 22, 2012
  2. ↑ Introduction by Wendy Leigh, daughter of Marion Charles , in: Marion Charles: I was a lucky child . Munich: cbj, 2013, p. 14 PDF
  3. ↑ Wendy Leigh, best-selling biographer of David Bowie and JFK, dies falling from balcony of her flat by the Thames , telegraph.co.uk, June 2, 2016, accessed December 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Leigh, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British society journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2016
Place of death London