Kinsey

Meticulous and energetic, critical where necessary, never coy, with some brilliant swerves of presentation and a delicious line in low-key humour. Sex, of course, is endlessly gripping but Gathorne-Hardy gives a sense of lifting the subject out of the mean and shabby into a wonderful, humane light, paralleling precisely what Kinsey himself did – Duncan Fallowell * Daily Express *
An excellent, far from adulatory biography * New Statesman *
An affecting portrait…Gathorne-Hardy’s enthusiasm for his subject is infectious… An excellently researched book * Literary Review *
A deeply humane book… This biography’s vivid protrait of a genius possessed is so compelling… Kinsey is one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century, a flawed visionary whose brave and amusing experiences are a testament to the rich complexity of human sexuality… With grace and wit Gathorne-Hardy has given us the full measure of the man – Michael Shelden * Daily Telegraph *
At exactly the right moment, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has produced a serious study of Kinsey, of the man and the work… This is the book we need to cap Kinsey’s work of liberation at his century’s end – Gore Vidal

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, The Public School Phenomenon and The Interior Castle, a biography of Gerald Brenan.

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