Witty and sophisticated, a brilliant dramatist and a charismatic actor, the multitalented Noel Coward was one of the most colorful personalities who ever strode across the stage. These diaries chronicle the last 30 years of his life, from his wartime concert tours through his private and professional depression in the 1950s to his triumphant reemergence and knighthood in the 1960s and '70s. "Compulsive reading...what Coward has to say about other people is light-hearted, witty, often shrewd, totally without malice...his final entertainment for everyone's pleasure are these diaries." --"Sunday Times." "A constant delight. A goldmine of gossip with a cast of a thousand stars."--"Guardian."