PositiveThe Jewish Chronicle... dauntingly detailed ... Lee meticulously fleshes out the life that Stoppard himself describes as lucky ... the disconnect between the playwright’s success and family history hovers over this biography just as it did over Stoppard’s life. That is until he — and so also Lee — can ignore it no more ... Though Stoppard is still going strong, the play serves as a satisfying final chapter to Lee’s book, drawing together as it does the frightening first section of Stoppard’s life and his most recent ... as a guide to understanding one of the greatest dramatists of this or any other time, the book is indispensable. It is difficult to imagine that a life could be better known and understood.
