Patrick McGilligan

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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. He has written biographies on Alfred Hitchcock. Clint Eastwood, James Cagney, Robert Altman, Fritz Lang, George Cukor, Jack Nicholson and Oscar Micheaux. He is also an editor of Backstory which interviews Hollywood screenwriters and 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

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