Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

"Easily the best book on Orson Welles." —The New Yorker

Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into "a sustaining tragedy"—his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read h...