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The brilliant, witty stories of 101 unlikely encounters between pairs of historical figures, all true, from Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud to Marilyn Monroe and Frank Lloyd Wright. Hello Goodbye Hello is a daisy chain of 101 fascinating true encounters, a book that has been hailed by reviewers in London as “howlingly funny” (The Spectator), “original and a complete delight” (The Sunday Times), and “rich and hugely enjoyable” (The Guardian). Or, as the London Evening Standard put it, “the truth and nothing but the plain, bonkers, howling truth . . . It is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of chaos and only the genius of Craig Brown could have produced it.” Who could imagine such unlikely but true encounters as these Frank Lloyd Wright meets Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khrushchev President Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley Harpo Marx meets George Bernard Brilliant in conception, Hello Goodbye Hello shows how the celebrated and gifted like the rest of us  got along famously or disastrously or indifferently with one another, but, thanks to Craig Brown, always to our amusement and entertainment. About the Author Craig Brown has been writing the Private Eye celebrity diary since 1989, and is a columnist for the Daily Mail. He has also written parodies for many other publications, including the Daily Telegraph, Vanity Fair, The Times and the Guardian. He is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction, and was the host of "This is Craig Brown" on BBC Radio 4. He lives in London.