Anthony Holden

Biography

Anthony Ivan Holden (22 May 1947 – 7 October 2023) was an English writer, broadcaster and literary critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, essayist Leigh Hunt, opera librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and actor Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British royal family, nota

• Anthony Ivan Holden (22 May 1947 – 7 October 2023) was an English writer, broadcaster and literary critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, essayist Leigh Hunt, opera librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and actor Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales.
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Public career

Anthony Ivan Holden (22 May 1947 – 7 October 2023) was an English writer, broadcaster and literary critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, essayist Leigh Hunt, opera libr.

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Public chronology

1. 1947

   Anthony Ivan Holden (22 May 1947 – 7 October 2023) was an English writer, broadcaster and literary critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, essayist Leigh Hunt,

2. 1947

   Holden was born in Southport, Lancashire, on 22 May 1947 to John Holden (1918–1985), an officer in the Manchester Regiment, and Margaret Lois (1918–1985), daughter of Ivan Sharpe, the England international footballer and

3. 1999

   In 1999–2000, he was an inaugural Fellow of the Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. When he was a Whitbread Prize judge in 2000, he said it would have been a "national humiliation" if Harry Po

4. 2002

   Holden was a member of the Board of Governors of the Southbank Centre 2002–08, during the landmark renovation programme under the chairmanship of Lord Hollick. Since 2006, he was a Trustee of Shakespeare North Trust.

5. 1988

   Holden also made frequent appearances on television, presenting such documentaries as Charles at Forty (ITV, 1988), Anthony Holden on Poker (BBC 2, 1991) and Who Killed Tchaikovsky? (Omnibus, BBC 1, 1993). In the mid-198

6. 1990

   Holden was a keen poker player, and spent a year playing professionally while researching his 1990 book Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player (ISBN 0-7432-9481-5), which has been praised by poker enthusiasts fr

7. 2000

   In 2000, he won TV's first Celebrity Late Night Poker on Channel 4, beating Al Alvarez, Martin Amis, Victoria Coren, Ricky Gervais, Patrick Marber and Stephen Fry. In 2005, Holden appeared on the chat show Heads Up with

8. 2007

   In 2007, Holden published Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom (ISBN 0-7432-9482-3), a journal of his second stint as a professional player, between the 2005 and 2006 WSOP events.

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