From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women the first ever
authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century Elizabeth Taylor.
No celebrity rivals Elizabeth Taylor's glamour and guts or her level of fame. She was the last
major star to come out of the old Hollywood studio system and she is a legend known for her
beauty and her magnetic screen presence in a career that spanned most of the twentieth century
and nearly sixty films. But her private life was even more compelling than her Oscar-winning
on-screen performances. During her seventy-nine years of rapid-fire love and loss she was
married eight times to seven different men. Above all she was a survivor-by the time she was
twenty-six she was twice divorced and once widowed. Her life was a soap opera that ended in a
deeply meaningful way when she became the first major celebrity activist to lead the fight
against HIV AIDS. A co-founder of amfAR she raised more than $100 million for research and
patient care. She was also a shrewd businesswoman who made a fortune as the first celebrity
perfumer who always demanded to be paid what she was worth. In the first ever authorized
biography of the Hollywood icon Kate Andersen Brower reveals the world through Elizabeth's
eyes. Brower uses Elizabeth's unpublished letters diary entries and off-the-record interview
transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family to tell the full
unvarnished story of her remarkable career and her explosive private life that made headlines
worldwide. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent empathetic tenacious volatile and
complex woman as never before from her rise to massive fame at age twelve in National Velvet
to becoming the first to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film from her eight marriages
and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her
courageous efforts as an AIDS activist. Here is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of
the legendary star and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor features a photo insert.
