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4.0 out of 5 stars
fascinating look at a marvelous character,
By Ann Weiser Cornell "Ann Weiser Cornell" (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird (Hardcover)
Geoff Gehman does a splendid job of bringing Eric Knight
back to life. The novelist and screenwriter, who unfortunately died too young as a casualty of World War II, is a delightful and rich subject for a biography. Gehman's approach utilizes Knight's own words as much as possible, allowing his letters to give us his take on his own life. Gehman expertly puts all this in the context of the times and of the Hollywood factory system. The book, like its subject, is witty and warm. It's filled with insights into the various characters Knight encountered in his busy and productive life. One of them, Frank Capra, is a man whose biography I've written, and there are new facets of Capra here. The test of a good book to me is that I learn new things from it and that it doesn't simply repeat what others have written. Gehman's life of Eric Knight fits that description and more. |
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Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird by Geoff Gehman (Hardcover - April 28, 1998)
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