JAMES KAPLAN is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays, reviews, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. He co-authored John McEnroe's autobiography, Serious, a number-one New York Times bestseller, and coauthored the bestselling Dean and Me with Jerry Lewis. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.
A biography that reads like a novel. . . . Kaplan does a nimble, brightly evocative job of tracing the development of Sinatra's art, and his remarkable rise and fall and rise again. --Michiko Kakutani, Top 10 Books of 2010, The New York Times <br> Fascinating, superbly written. . . . Whatever you think of Ol' Blue Eyes, he led an incredible life, and his adventures make great reading. This book is biography at its best. -- The Dallas Morning News <br> Marvelously thoughtful. . . . A propulsive narrative that never flags. -- Los Angeles Times <br> Jim Kaplan's great gift is his own voice, in peak form--stylish, seductive, and richly resonant--that stands up to Sinatra's powerful baritone. This is a perceptive, passionate biography. --Bob Spitz, author of The Beatles <br> <br> Just when you think you know all the stories . . . along comes James Kaplan's Frank to tell us more. . . . Sinatra lovers will be enthralled. -- O, The Oprah Magazine<br> <br> [Reader