New ebook provides unprecedented look into Elizabeth Taylor’s non-public life

Judy Woodruff:

It has been 12 years since legendary Oscar-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died on the age of 79.

And, for the primary time, her property granted a journalist entry to the icon’s non-public diaries, private letters and off-the-record interview transcripts. The result’s an almost 450-page examination of Taylor’s extraordinary profession, advocacy efforts, complicated private life, marriages, and battle with habit.

I spoke just lately with Kate Andersen Brower, the writer of “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon.”

Kate Andersen Brower, welcome again to the “NewsHour.”

There should be dozens, if not scores of books about Elizabeth Taylor. What made you wish to write one other one?

Kate Andersen Brower, Writer, “Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon”: It was a novel sort of second the place I wished to put in writing about an necessary historic determine.

And I acquired to know Senator John Warner, who was Elizabeth’s sixth husband. And Senator Warner put me in contact together with her household. And the household stated they have been lastly able to let a journalist see her diaries and letters. They have been very protecting of her. And it had been a few decade since she had handed away.

So, it was a novel kind of chain of occasions that led to this ebook.