Axel Madsen

Axel Madsen

Axel Madsen (May 27 1930 – April 23 2007) was a Danish-American biographer and journalist.

Born in Copenhagen and raised in Paris, Madsen turned from music to writing in the early 1950s, initially for the Paris edition of the "New York Herald Tribune". In 1956 he moved to Canada and began working for United Press International. He moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s.

Biographies included Billy Wilder, Barbara Stanwyck, Coco Chanel, John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, Yves St. Laurent, Andre Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, William C. Durant, William Wyler, and John Huston.

He died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles.Noland, Claire (April 29, 2007). Axel Madsen, 76; writer chronicled the lives of celebrities, business giants. "Los Angeles Times"]

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