Lynn Barber

The troubled life of Paul Newman

The screen idol emerges from this posthumous memoir as painfully insecure and a long-time alcoholic – but also modest, generous and a devoted family man

Paul Newman in 1965. When he died, it was reckoned that he was ‘the most generous individual in the 20th-century history of the United States’. [Alamy]

  • The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

    Paul Newman

    Century, pp. 320, £25

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