David Furnish and Sir Elton entered into a civil partnership on 21 December 2005, the first day that civil partnerships could be performed in England, in the town of Windsor, Berkshire. Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born in December 2010 in California via surrogacy. In January 2013, the couple's second son, Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John, was born through the same surrogate. After same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, Sir Elton and Furnish retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor, Berkshire, on 21 December
Zachary Leader Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964", which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize in the U.K. "The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965 to 2005" will be published in 2018. He has written and edited a dozen books, including both volumes of the Bellow biography, and is General Editor of "The Oxford History of Life-Writing", a seven-volume series published by OUP. A recipient of Guggenheim, Whiting, Huntington, Leverhulme and British Academy Fellowships, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Zachary Leader Zachary Leader (born 1946) is a professor of English Literature at the