Patrick McGilligan

Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light ; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast ; and George Cukor: A Double Life ; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist ...See more

Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light ; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast ; and George Cukor: A Double Life ; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist . He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born. See less