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Anthony Holden
Anthony Holden (born 22 May 1947) is a British journalist, broadcaster and writer, particularly known as a biographer of the British Royal family and of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Lorenzo da Ponte and Laurence Olivier.
LifeHe was born in Lancashire, and educated at Oundle School and the University of Oxford, where he edited the student paper Isis. He has written for a wide range of publications, and is music critic of The Observer. When he was a Whitbread Prize judge in 2000 he said it would have been a "national humiliation" if Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had won, ahead of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. He had threatened to resign if that happened. Robert Harris derided this threat as "pompous." [1] PokerHolden is a poker player, and spent a year playing professionally while researching his 1990 book Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player (ISBN 0743294815). The book covers his experiences between the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments in 1988 and 1989. In 2007, Holden published Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom (ISBN 0743294823), a journal of his second stint as a professional player, between the 2005 and 2006 WSOP events. In 2005 he appeared on the chat show Heads Up with Richard Herring, to discuss his life, career and his love of poker. Works
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