Earlier in the week the publishers at Indigo provided me with the details about preordering Hugo Vickers’s new and improved Vivien Leigh biography set to release this fall.  They are offering a special discounted rate for those of us who would like to preorder! To preorder your copy today (international buyers welcome), click HERE or visit IndigoPublishing.com and find the link. Details about the book are below:

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For a limited time only, Vivien-Leigh.com fans can pre-order Vivien Leigh: A Biography, for $19.95, plus shipping. Save 20% off the retail rate and get your copy hot off the press! Written by author Hugo Vickers, this 432-page book offers in-depth details of Leigh�s whirlwind life. Order your copy today! The book is expected to publish in mid-October. To order, visit our www.indigopublishing.com and look for the link. Or click HERE.

There are many biographies of Vivien Leigh, the legend, who at age twenty-five crossed the Atlantic and walked off with the coveted role of Scarlett O�Hara in Gone with the Wind. This biography by Hugo Vickers, written in 1988 and updated and re-released in 2008, tells the story of Vivien Leigh, the woman. Examining the previously uncovered story of Vivien Leigh�s family, Vickers gives the first clear account of the atmosphere in which Vivien was raised. He covers her marriage to Leigh Holman and their abiding friendship, and then her marriage to Laurence Oliver, made the more difficult by her recurring bouts of tuberculosis and manic depression. In this loving account, Leigh emerges as a spirited and courageous woman, brave to the end.

I would like to update the Vivien Leigh fan base with the following information. As you may already know, Hugo Vickers has been actively working on revising his previous published Vivien Leigh biography. Indigo Publishing is the American publisher he’s been working with on this project. I contacted Indigo today to get a status report on the book’s progress (the last time I got a status update was back in November 2007).  The publisher kindly responded immediately with some fantastic news: “Just got the author’s revisions in the middle of last week . . .   Hopefully, if all goes well now, the book will finally become reality in the next month or two.  Hugo has made a lot of changes, and updates which all have to be put in by hand, which we are doing now.” Keep your fingers crossed and check back for more information as I receive it!