Woody Allen A Biography Author:Eric Lax The definitive biography and national best seller, now back in print and fully updated. When it first appeared in 1991, Eric Lax's splendid biography, written with nineteen years of access to Woody Allen, was universally hailed as the definitive portrait of a film genius. The next year, as Allen's long relationship with Mia Farrow disintegrated... more » amid scandal, a new phase of his life and work began. For this edition, Lax has written a chapter on the break-up and the personal and professional changes that followed. He chronicles the last eight films, from Shadows and Fog to his latest Small Time Crooks, and again offers Woody's candid opinions of his art and himself. Published to coincide with Allen's sixty-fifth birthday, this updated biography will continue to be "required reading for Woodyphiles" (Kansas City Star).« less
Allen is a pain in the butt sometimes, pushing his character shtick too far, but nobody makes movies like he does. His feel for New York life is dead-on, and his characters are more human than anybody else in movies.
And finally, who is as original as Woody? This book was a tremendous example of boigraphy at it's best.