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Elia Kazan: A LifeRead about the other entries on the list.
A huge sprawling autobiography from "the actor's director" whose films included On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and East of Eden. When this nearly 900-page book came out in 1988, Norman Mailer described it as "the best autobiography I've read by a prominent American in I don't know how many years."
Elia Kazan: A Life is among William Friedkin's five best books on film directors, Stefan Kanfer's five best books on remarkable Hollywood lives, and Richard Schickel's five best show-biz biographies.
--Marshal Zeringue