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Julie Kavanagh is the author of Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton, which won the Dance Perspectives Foundation de la Torre Bueno Prize. She trained in ballet before taking up a career in journalism and has been arts editor of Harpers & Queen, a dance critic for The Spectator, and London editor of both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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Nureyev
The Life
Written by Julie Kavanagh

Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $19.95

Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage.

In this superb biography, Julie Kavanagh deftly brings... Read more >

Nureyev
The Life
Written by Julie Kavanagh

Format: Hardcover, 800 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $37.50

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the stage. With Nureyev: The Life, Julie Kavanagh shows how his intense drive and passion for dance propelled him from... Read more >