Clive James

Person · Open Library

Born

7 October 1939

Died

24 November 2019

Works

105

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

DE

Active from

1929-04-17

Active to

2015-06-09

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Listeners

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Total plays

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Clive James CBE, AM (born Vivian Leopold James, 7 October 1939) is an Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet and memoirist, best known for his autobiographical series Unreliable Memoirs, for his chat shows and documentaries on British television and for his prolific journalism. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom since the early 1960s. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Clive+James">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews

   · 2021 · cited 84,647x

2. Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations

   · 1976 · cited 68,217x

3. Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis

   · 2012 · cited 66,769x

4. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,423x

5. Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.

   · 1988 · cited 31,702x

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Quotes

• “Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.”
• “Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.”
• “I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.”
• “My mother had naturally spiced the pudding with sixpences and threepenny bits, called zacs and trays respectively. Grandpa had collected one of these in the oesophagus. He gave a protracted, strangled gurgle which for a long time we all took to be the beginning of some anecdote.”
• “I remember the shock of seeing Ray undressed. He looked as if he had a squirrel hanging there. I had an acorn.”
• “Children in Australia are still named after movies and sporting events. You can tell roughly the year the swimming star Shane Gould was born. It was about the time Shane was released. There was a famous case of a returned serviceman who named his son after all the campaigns he had been through in the Western Desert. The kid was called William Bardia Escarpment Qattara Depression Mersa Matruh Tobruk El Alamein Benghazi Tripoli Harris.”

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