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Charles Thomas Osborne (born 24 November 1927 in Brisbane, Australia) is a journalist, theatre and opera critic, biographer, poet and novelist. He was assistant editor of The London Magazine from 1958 until 1966, literature director of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1971 until 1986, and chief theatre critic of Daily Telegraph (London) from 1986 to 1991. He is the only author the Agatha Christie Estate has ever allowed to produce adapted works in her name. Black Coffee (1998),The Unexpected Guest (1999) and Spider's Web (2000) were all novelised from Agatha Christie's plays and published in one volume as Murder in Three Stages (Agatha Christie) (om 2007, n3). Osborne also The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982, updated 1999).
Two more novelisations are: Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (2004),and The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People by Oscar Wilde (1999). Osborne published an original novel, Pink Danube, in 2000.
BIOGRAPHY
Kafka (1967)
Wagner and His World ( 1977)
W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet (1980)
Giving it Away (1986, memoirs)
POETRY
Swansong (1968)
Letter to W. H. Auden and Other Poems (1984)
MUSIC (companions etc.)
The Complete Operas of Verdi (1969)
The Opera House Album (1979)
The Complete Operas of Puccini (1981)
How to Enjoy Opera (1982)
The Dictionary of Opera (1983)
The Complete Operas of Wagner (1990)
The Complete Operas of Strauss (1992)
The Complete Operas of Mozart (1992)
The Bel Canto Operas (1994)
The Opera Lover's Companion (2004)