Barry Paris
Barry Paris (born February 6, 1948) is an author and journalist based in
Paris' best-known works include biographies of film stars Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo and Audrey Hepburn. He is a movie reviewer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and co-host of a weekly radio show on WQED-FM. Paris has won awards for cultural and investigative reporting. He is currently engaged in writing a biography of Franklin Pierce (tentatively titled Pierce in Oblivion), the 14th President of the United States.
Biographic works
Louise Brooks (Knopf, 1989) is Paris's biography of the
Paris authored
Paris contributed 15 Minutes, But Who's Counting? Andy Warhol and His Icons to The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion (Bulfinch Press, 1997); and edited and wrote the preface to Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov (Knopf, 1999), a collection of talks by the legendary drama teacher. A second, Paris-edited, collection of Stella Adler's talks is in preparation.
As well as the above-mentioned books, Paris published profiles of the novelist and Mozart biographer
Paris is a 1969 graduate of
Paris was the editor-publisher of the Prairie Journal of
References
- ^ University of Minnesota Press. "Louise Brooks: A Biography". Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^ University of Minnesota Press. "Louise Brooks: A Biography". Retrieved December 9, 2016.
- ^ University of Minnesota Press. "Louise Brooks: A Biography". Retrieved December 9, 2016.
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