The Gospel according to Anthony Heilbut
Barney Hoskyns, Independent, The, 24 June 1996
From Mahalia Jackson to Death in Venice might seem a long journey. But for Anthony Heilbut, the renowned gospel expert and author of a new biography of Thomas Mann, the connections are not so outlandish.
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