Les Miserables: History in the Making

by Edward Samuel Behr

Includes material on Victor Hugo and the production of the 1980's musical version of Les Misaerables.

Genres: Nonfiction, Music, Theatre

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Edward Samuel Behr was a journalist; he worked primarily as a foreign & war correspondent. He began his career in the early 1950s with the Reuters news agency, then worked for Time-Life, serving as bureau chief in several cities around the world for Time Magazine. He then took a position with Newsweek in 1965 as Asia bureau chief, based in Hong Kong. Later in his career, Mr. Behr also made a number of documentaries for the BBC. He wrote several books during his life on various subjects, including a memoir which was published in 1978.