Gene Wilder, Author . St. Martin's $23.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-312-33706-3
The man who created some of the funniest moments in film history talks about acting, adultery, neuroses and death in this intimate, unusual memoir. Wilder began acting as a teenager at summer camp and eventually earned some acclaim on Broadway but...
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Gene Wilder, Author . St. Martin's $21.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-312-36057-3
A simple, straight-faced love story about a brave coward and a scarlet woman drives actor Wilder's touching debut novel. (His memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger
, appeared last year.) It's 1918, and Paul Peachy, an unassuming train conductor...
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Gene Wilder, Author . St. Martin’s $19.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-312-37578-2
Wilder’s short second novel, following the similarly semifarcical My French Whore
, takes a poignant and whimsically romantic poke at turn-of-the-last-century Europe’s privileged gentry. When British concert violinist Jeremy Spencer Webb
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Gene Wilder, Author . St. Martin’s $19.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-312-59890-7
The much beloved star of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
delivers less than his best in his third work of fiction (after The Woman Who Wouldn’t
), a collection of 12 forgettable stories. Wilder dedicates the book to his late cousin...
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