You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Though Born Into Privilege and Inheriting a Fortune, Willie Donaldson Ended Up Dying Alone in a Seedy Rented Flat, His Computer Still Logged on to a Lesbian Porn Site. to Some, He Had Been One of the Great, Under-Rated Comic Writers of Our Time, and to Others, a Dangerous Force of Corruption and Decadence. His Achievements Were Significant - He Published "Sylvia Plath" While Still at Cambridge, As a Producer in the Sixties He Staged "Beyond the Fringe", and He Was Later to Write the Celebrated "Henry Root Letters" - but Not As Impressive As His Reckless Talent for Self-Destruction.The Impresario Became a Serial Bankrupt. the Man About Town, Who Had Lived With Sarah Miles and Been Engaged to Carly Simon, Ended Up As a Ponce in a Chelsea Brothel. Success As a Writer Quickly Led Him Into a Dark Underworld of Crack Addiction, Fraud and Sexual Obsession. Now Friend and Collaborator, Terence Blacker Unravels the Intimate Truth of Willie Donaldson's Strange Story in All Its Glamour, Hilarity