Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius

As part of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, May revolutionized sketch comedy before striking out on her own to make history as the third woman to be admitted into the Directors Guild of America when she wrote, directed, and starred in 1971's A New Leaf. Throughout the 1970s and `80s, May was one of Hollywood's top screenwriters and script doctors and one of the only women directing within the studio system. After a box-office bomb, May never directed a feature again, thou...