Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

Still, “A Celebration of Harold Pinter” is a stirring tribute to a man who lived boldly, and the trove of work—some of it overlooked—that he left behind.

WELL before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being “enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding”.