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By Peter Osnos On a rainy Sunday afternoon in November, I decided to read historian Antonia Fraser’s Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). Pinter, the playwright, actor, and Nobel Prize winner in literature died of cancer in late 2008, and Fraser, his lover and then wife for more than 30 years, had put off work on her biography of Elizabeth I so she could collect this diary of their lives together. The reviews had been enticing: “Glowing,” wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times, “There’s hardly a dull page.” In the early 1980s as […]