PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
William Mann is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn, How to be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood, Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand, Tinseltown: Mruder, Morphine, Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood, and most recently The Wars of the Roosevelts. His biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines won the 1999 Lambda Literary Award. He has worked as a freelance journalist and editor, and writes both fiction and nonfiction. He currently splits his time between Provincetown, Massachusetts and Palm Springs, California with his partner, Dr. Timothy Huber.
"""Well-researched . . . . Mann is perceptive, careful and experienced in writing about the film business."" — David Thomson, London Review of Books “Engrossing…. Scrupulously attending to the distinct personalities, cultural conditions, and media environment that joined forces to create `arguably Hollywood’s greatest love story,’ Mann delivers a spirited narrative that’s hard to put down….Film buffs will eat this up.” — Publishers Weekly"
