Kinsey
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
  • Published: 1 February 2005
  • ISBN: 9781844138364
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99

Kinsey

A Biography

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The incredible life of one of the most fascinating scientists whose investigations into human sexuality ignited the sexual revolution.

Alfred Kinsey was the twentieth century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. His Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report), published in 1948, was an explosive bestseller, followed in 1953 by his even more radical statistics on female sexuality - both based on over 18,000 case histories. But Kinsey's exploration went much further than that. Bisexual, he experimented with many of the behaviours he was hearing about; and his wife and close colleagues experimented as well.

For this remarkable biography - which forms the basis of a major film - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has interviewed in depth Kinsey's remaining family, his close colleagues, friends and lovers. With wit and subtlety he reveals whole new aspects of this complex, heroic, obsessive and ultimately sympathetic man.
  • Published: 1 February 2005
  • ISBN: 9781844138364
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the author of The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny, The Public School Phenomenon and The Interior Castle, a biography of Gerald Brenan and Alfred C. Kinsey.

Praise for Kinsey

Meticulous and energetic, critical where necessary, never coy, with some brilliant swerves of presentation and a delicious line in low-key humour. Sex, of course, is endlessly gripping but Gathorne-Hardy gives a sense of lifting the subject out of the mean and shabby into a wonderful, humane light, paralleling precisely what Kinsey himself did

Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express

An excellent, far from adulatory biography

New Statesman

An affecting portrait...Gathorne-Hardy's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious... An excellently researched book

Literary Review

A deeply humane book... This biography's vivid protrait of a genius possessed is so compelling... Kinsey is one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the twentieth century, a flawed visionary whose brave and amusing experiences are a testament to the rich complexity of human sexuality... With grace and wit Gathorne-Hardy has given us the full measure of the man

Michael Shelden, Daily Telegraph

At exactly the right moment, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has produced a serious study of Kinsey, of the man and the work... This is the book we need to cap Kinsey's work of liberation at his century's end

Gore Vidal