Patrick McGilligan (biographer)

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Patrick McGilligan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Patrick McGilligan is an Irish American biographer, film historian and writer. His biography on Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light was a finalist for the Edgar Award.^[1] He is the author of two New York Times Notable Books, and he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also noted for his biography on Clint Eastwood, Clint: The Life and Legend, which reveals much about Eastwood which his official biography by Richard Schickel left out. In addition to Hitchcock and Eastwood, he has written biographies on Robert Altman, James Cagney, George Cukor, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, Jack Nicholson, and Nicholas Ray. He is also an editor of Backstory, which features interviews of Hollywood screenwriters and is published by the University of California Press.^[2]

Notable works

Clint: The Life and Legend
George Cukor: A Double Life
Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light
Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast
Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker
Jack Nicholson: The Joker Is Wild
Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director

References

↑ Harper Collins
↑ Robert Riskin and Patrick McGilligan. Six Screenplays.

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