D. W. Griffith: An American Life

by Richard Schickel

Overview

(Limelight). "This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." The New Republic ; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position." Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879100803
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2004
Series:	Limelight
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	1,012,391
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.65(d)

What People are Saying About This

Stanley Kauffmann

At last - a really comprehensive and comprehending biography of the first great film artist. Richard Schickel deserves the gratitude of everyone who cares about film or about American cultural history.

Editorial Reviews

LJ's reviewer found that Schickel's monumental biography of the man who practically invented Hollywood "presents the first great director as the author of his own destruction" (LJ 4/1/84).

Library Journal

The definitive biography of this complicated, tragic, exasperating... supremely important figure.
— Chicago Tribune

John Houseman