Buster Keaton's autobiography is a view into the quirky mind behind the stoic face of the legendary film comedian.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780306801785
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication Date: 08-22-1982
Pages: 340
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x (d)
About the Author
Charles Samuels, a New York newspaperman, wrote biographies of Jody Garland, Lizzie Borden, and Evelyn Nesbit. He worked with Buster Keaton on My Wonderful World of Slapstick (also available from Da Capo Press). Donald Bogle is the author of Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars (also available from De Capo Press), Blacks in American Film & Television: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Toms, Coon, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive Histroy of Blacks in American Films. He has been called "the dean of black film history."