Patrick_McGilligan_(biographer)

Patrick McGilligan (biographer)

Patrick McGilligan (biographer)

American historian

Patrick McGilligan (born April 22, 1951)[1] 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.[2] 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 the author described as "a left-wing book."[3] In addition to Hitchcock and Eastwood, he has written biographies on Robert Altman, James Cagney, George Cukor, Fritz Lang, Oscar Micheaux, Jack Nicholson, Nicholas Ray, Orson Welles and Mel Brooks. He is also an editor of Backstory, which features interviews of Hollywood screenwriters and is published by the University of California Press.[4]

Patrick McGilligan at the 2011 Texas Book Festival.

Notable works

  • Funny Man: Mel Brooks
  • 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
  • Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist with Paul Buhle

References

  1. [1]
    "Patrick Michael McGilligan" at Encyclopedia.com.
  2. [2]
    "Patrick McGilligan from HarperCollins Publishers". Harper Collins. Archived from the original on 2006-11-03.
  3. [3]
    McGavin, Patrick Z. (July 22, 2015). "From Clint to Orson: A Conversation with Biographer Patrick McGilligan". rogerebert.com.
  4. [4]
    Riskin, Robert; McGilligan, Patrick (1997). Six Screenplays. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-585-33260-6. OCLC 45843349.


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