Furious Love

He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman. She was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance-often called ôthe marriage of the centuryö - was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.

Sam Kashner is the author of three nonfiction books and one novel, Sinatraland, and is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, Esquire, and GQ. He lives in New York City. A former executive director of the Academy of American Poets, Nancy Schoenberger was an associate producer of the PBS film series Voices and Visions. She is the author of Dangerous Muse, teaches creative writing at the College of William and Mary, and divides her time between Virginia and New York.