The Times (UK): Definitive
“[A] biography that no Bacon fan … can afford to overlook … the prose flows swiftly and elegantly … presents a mesmerising portrait … riveting anecdotes … where this biography soars above rivals is where its authors … probe beneath the façade … and analyse what lay beneath the mask … This is a biography that … must surely count as definitive.”
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston. “Francis Bacon by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan review — the iconoclast who found glory in squalor.” The Times, January16, 2021.