Jeff Young, Editor, Elia Kazan, Author Newmarket Press $32.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-55704-338-2
Timed to follow the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' controversial decision to present the 1999 lifetime achievement Oscar to famed film director Elia Kazan, this selection of interviews has little bearing on contemporary Hollywood. In...
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Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin. Knopf, $40 (672p) ISBN 978-0-307-26716-0
This collection of letters written by acclaimed director Elia Kazan chronicles his life from his start as an actor to his rise as a Broadway and Hollywood director to his life later as a writer. The book contains correspondence with a wide range of...
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Elia Kazan, Author, Eli Kazan, Author Anchor Books $13.7 (848p) ISBN 978-0-385-26103-6
According to PW , ``flashes of sudden insight or eloquence keep the reader turning the pages of Kazan's garrulous autobiography.'' His expansive memoir makes no apologies for his decision to name names during the McCarthy era, and includes cutting...
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Elia Kazan, Author, Eli Kazan, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24.95 (848p) ISBN 978-0-394-55953-7
Flashes of sudden insight or eloquence keep the reader turning the pages of Kazan's garrulous 864-page autobiography. The famous director, now 78, apparently wanted it all: comfortable domesticity (provided by three wives) and a bachelor's sexual...
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Elia Kazan, Author, Eli Kazan, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (449p) ISBN 978-0-679-42565-6
The pulverization of Anatolian Greeks by Turks just after WW I provides the historical context for Kazan's sprawling but dense new novel, a sequel to America, America and The Anatolian. Brimming with scenes of concentrated dramatic power but...
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