Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve, to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, to her eight marriages, to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist. Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.