Full name: Woody Allen: A Biography

Author: Eric Lax Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780306809859 0306809850

When it first appeared in 1991, Eric Lax's splendid biography, written with nineteen years of access to Woody Allen, was universally hailed as the definitive portrait of a film genius. The next year, as Allen's long relationship with Mia Farrow disintegrated amid scandal, a new phase of his life and work began. For this edition, Lax has written a chapter on the breakup and the personal and professional changes that followed. He chronicles Allen's next eight films, from Shadows and Fog to Small Time Crooks, and again offers Woody's candid opinions of his art and himself. Published to coincide with Allen's sixty-fifth birthday, this updated biography will continue to be "required reading for Woodyphiles" (Kansas City Star). Similar books: Groucho by Stefan Kanfer Bogart by A. M. Sperber Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu by Simon Callow Showman by David Thomson Kate by William J. Mann James Dean by David Dalton Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey Montgomery Clift by Patricia Bosworth Vincent Price by Victoria Price Charlie Chaplin and His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn Buster Keaton by Edward McPherson Notorious by Donald Spoto D.W. Griffith by Richard Schickel Katharine Hepburn by Barbara Leaming Get Happy by Gerald Clarke The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho