'The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara' – the first biography in English: born Samuel Rosenstock in Western Moldavia in 1896, Bucharest in 1907, Zurich in 1915, performing 'simultaneist verse' at Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, the birth of Dada, to Paris in 1919, the twists and turns of between the Wars, other parts of France during the Spanish Civil War, World War Two, until his death in 1963; illustrated.