Books
June, 1989
Showbiz Biography is traditionally a disgusting form of literary necrophagia. What puts two new biographies a cut above the grave robbers is that they concentrate on the work (as opposed to the "intimate, personal lives") of two extraordinary men.Orson Welles has been called a genius so often it seems like his middle name. But Frank Brady's Citizen Welles (Scribner's) is the first book in the huge Welles bibliography to thoroughly document that claim. Brady begins with Welles's childho...
