Publisher's Synopsis
Scholar, writer, biographer, aesthete, and impeccable host, Stanley Olson was, until a cruel stroke incapacitated him at 39 and killed him three years later, a much loved and admire member of London's literary world. The story of how he transformed himself from an American Jewish youth into an English eccentric and lived an extravagant life is beautifully told in this elegant chapter of transatlantic literary history.
