Clive James was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1939 and educated at Sydney Technical High School and Sydney University, where he was literary editor of the student newspaper Honi Soit and also directed ...

Clive James, a poet, television critic and former ITV presenter, has died after a decade-long battle with cancer. He was 80. James passed away on Sunday at his Cambridge home, according to The ...

Author, poet and TV entertainer Clive James is not a well man. But clinging onto life has inspired some of his most beautiful work ever. In an extraordinarily candid interview the beloved Aussie star ...

For decades, the Australian-born writer Clive James was a cultural sensation in his adopted Britain as a critic, TV host, memoirist, novelist and poet, and not least for his exuberant, often cunning ...

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out." That is just one of the many clever observations of the writer, TV host and cultural critic Clive James, who died at his home in Cambridge, England, on ...

Most writers who are comic in the first instance have fugitive reputations, difficult to import from place to place. But the Australian writer, critic, and essayist (and novelist and poet and ...

Clive James, 76, is an Australian critic and author of 40 books, including “Unreliable Memoirs” and “Cultural Amnesia.” His latest book, “Sentenced to Life” (Liveright), is a collection of his poems.

A transplanted Australian, he had a zest for the knockout punch as he sparred with all things cultural, creating a pungent comic persona on British television. By William Grimes Clive James, a ...