The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson. This single volume brings together "The Henry Root Letters" and "The Further Letters of Henry Root". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Donaldson's third marriage, in 1986, was to Cherry Hatrick, who survived him; they separated six months after their marriage.

When he hits a target full on, or when the target responds with good grace or a sense of humour, it's hilarious, however. The millions who enjoyed the original 'Root' will no doubt have assumed that such a public and hysterical scam could never be repeated.The phenomenal success of the Henry Root books, especially the first, enabled Donaldson to resume his earlier chaotic lifestyle, and in the mid-1980s he began using crack cocaine.

The letters were published as The Henry Root Letters and The Further Letters of Henry Root and a compilation volume, The Complete Henry Root Letters. He was educated at Winchester College (where he first met Julian Mitchell) and Magdalene College, Cambridge. Root wrote the BBC – I think Monty Python had his number, the Queen, Prince Charles, various publishing houses.

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The thoroughly disgraceful life and times of Willie Donaldson. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. He established himself as a central player in the British satire boom of the early 1960s, as co-producer, with Donald Albery, of Beyond the Fringe (1960), and of dramatisations of J. Supposedly a wet fish merchant from Fulham, he is an avatar for a lot of the to-the-right-of-Attila-the-Hun, Thatcher-supporting, mildly racist, entitled, liberal-baiting mansplaining that was de rigeur and absolutely unchallenged in the Spectator/Private Eye yachts and casinos circles that Donaldson frequented.