Hannah Hyam
Hannah Hyam first discovered Fred Astaire through the
Astaire-Rogers films, and she has retained a special passion and
affection for those films since that first encounter some 20 years
ago. In 2007 her first book, Fred and Ginger: The Astaire-Rogers
Partnership 1934–1938, was finally published (by Pen Press)
after gestating for most of those 20 years. A detailed study of
seven of the Fred and Ginger films (from The Gay Divorcee to
Carefree), it has been described by Larry Billman as ‘unique
in the Astaire library . . . an extraordinary accomplishment’, while
Ken Barnes, writing in In Tune International, declared that of all
the books on Astaire and Rogers it is ‘certainly the most
interesting to date and may in time be seen as the best’.
Hannah lives in Bath, England, where she works as a freelance
editor specializing in academic, educational and literary texts.
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