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Sybille Bedford 1911–, English writer, b. Charlottenberg, Germany. She has worked as a legal reporter for various publications, covering such events as the Auschwitz trials and the trial of Jack Ruby. Her novels can be called socio-historical and usually concern the interaction between character and events. They include A Legacy (1956), A Favorite of the Gods (1963), A Compass Error (1968), and Jigsaw (1989). Bedford, for 35 years a close friend of Aldous Huxley, wrote his official biography (2 vol., 1973–74).
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