BANNISTER ON WRITING

Roger Bannister

June 20, 1955

Roger Bannister, who last week was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II, has just finished his autobiography (from which this two-part series was excerpted). It is scheduled for early publication by Dodd, Mead & Co. The youthful author has this to say about writing his memoirs at his age: "One of the very few advantages of writing in my middle twenties is that it is still possible to remember adolescence as a time of both turmoil and frustration. Perhaps only the young should be allowed to reminisce, because only they can remember turmoil and frustration as well as happiness. They are not old enough to see everything in the distorted mirror of time or dimmed by the haze of forgetfulness."