Description: From the legendary New Yorker theater critic and Tony Award winner, a moving memoir about American theater's golden age.
Brief description: John Lahr is the author of Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, which won the National Book Circle Critics Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His biography Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton--"As good as literary biography gets" (New York Times)--was made into a 1987 film starring Gary Oldman and Vanessa Redgrave. He lives in London.