Anita Leslie was a celebrated biographer who wrote extensively on subjects who were often her own relatives, such as her great-aunt Jennie Churchill, mother of Winston, and the sculptor Clare Sheridan, a cousin. She also wrote a life of Rodin in Rodin: Immortal Peasant (1939) and the best-selling Edwardians in Love (1972). In 1983 her best-selling wartime memoir A Story Half Told detailed her experiences as an ambulance driver in the French Army during...