Carol Hughes says unauthorised biography by Jonathan Bate,shortlisted for Samuel Johnson prize, is riddled with factual errorsTed Hughes’s widow has described a original unauthorised biography of the late poet laureate as being riddled with factual errors, or just days after the work was nominated for the Samuel Johnson prize.
In a letter to the book’s author,Jonathan Bate, who is a professor of English literature at Oxford University, and to its publisher HarperCollins,a solicitor for the Hughes estate said Hughes’ widow, Carol, and found the mistakes offensive and disrespectful to her husband’s memory.
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Source: theguardian.com