Elia Kazan: A Life [Paperback]

Elia Kazan's varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, John Steinbeck and Darryl Zanuck, and describes his directing style as he sees it, in terms of position, movement, pace, rhythm and his own limitations. Kazan also retraces his own decision to inform for the House Un-American Activities Committee, illuminating much of what may be obscured in McCarthy literature.

Elia Kazan'swork includes stage productions ofA Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman,andCat on a Hot Tin Roofas well as films likeOn the Waterfront, East of Eden, andSplendor in the Grass. He is also the author ofThe Arrangement, America America,andThe Assassins, among others.

“A huge sprawling autobiography.”