Michael Feeney Callan won the Hennessy Literary Award for his short fiction and has published poetry and novels, as well as biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Richard Harris, Julie Christie, and Sean Connery. He has worked for the BBC, Ireland’s Ardmore Studios, and PBS as a writer, producer, and director of television dramas and documentaries. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.
“As incisive a biography of Redford as there is ever likely to be.”
—The New York Times
“One of the 10 Best Movie Books of the Year.” –Entertainment
Weekly
“Revealing. . . . An unusually well-written movie-star biography. .
. . Robert Redford is as fascinating…as its subject.” —The Wall
Street Journal
“Meticulous. . . . Tells Redford’s story through Redford’s eyes and
through the eyes of his family, friends and allied associates.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“First-rate. . . . A layered portrait of one of the most famous—and
elusive—faces in pop culture.” —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“Deeply researched. . . . Callan’s book begins and ends exactly
where it should: with that quadrant of Utah soil christened by its
owner ‘Sundance.’” —The Washington Post
“Meticulous. . . . Covers in detail Redford’s four-decade acting
career, his emergence as a director and his dedication to
environmental causes.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Genuinely insightful . . . Michael Feeney Callan remains keenly
aware of his subject’s larger-than-lifeness, even as he tries to
chip away to reveal the person underneath.” —Entertainment
Weekly
"Callan's book is one of the most thoroughly researched, analytic
examinations ever conducted into the life of a popular
entertainer." —The Sunday Times (London)
“A precise, weighty analysis of Redford's life and impact,
meticulously constructed and delivered with pace and style. . . .
Set to become the definitive account, not only of Redford, but also
of that era of movie-making that was his hey-day, the era of All
The President's Men and The Candidate.” —Irish Independent
“A deft narrative about the business of making mainstream movies
from the 1960s to the present, loaded with insider interviews and
compelling mini-histories of how Redford movies like ‘The
Candidate,’ ‘Out of Africa,’ and ‘A River Runs Through It’ came to
be made.” —San Francisco Chronicle
"This is superior fare, a meticulously researched account of one of
Hollywood's iconic heart-throbs, drawn from Redford's journals and
correspondence and supplemented by copious taped interviews given
over a number of years. . . . Compelling." —The Mail on
Sunday (UK)
“Carefully crafted. . . . Callan is clearly on his game when it
comes to dissecting Redford’s film career.” —Newsday
“An elegant, perceptive book, admiring, friendly, but neither
hagiographic nor obsequious.” —The Guardian (UK)
“Prodigiously researched. . . . Offers much to admire. . . .
Interviews from primary sources flesh out almost every aspect of
his life.” —Kansas City Star
“Bracing. . . . A fascinating study…of fame and our uneasy
relationship with it.” —The New York Post
“A highly descriptive history. . . . Tells a compelling story with
dozens of enigmatic, intriguing characters. . . . An analysis of
the way that history, personal or national, shapes us and we, in
turn, shape it. . . . An entertaining, enriching reading
experience.” —PopMatters
“Exhaustive. . . . An open, honest appraisal of a true motion
picture star. . . . A well-documented, well-written…portrait of a
public figure known best from a collection of iconic films and from
public endeavors.” —The Anniston Star
“Michael Feeney Callan spent 14 years researching, interviewing and
traipsing in the 74-year-old star’s footsteps and has provided
great insights into a man who shied from public scrutiny throughout
a luminous career.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Too seldom is the life of an actor of Robert Redford's stature
given such a finely detailed and well-written
exploration.” —Associated Press
"An elegant life of Robert Redford gets to the heart of an
enigmatic, Gatsbyesque charmer who dreamed of freedom, honesty and
social fulfillment. Feeney Callan has written an elegant,
perceptive book, admiring, friendly. . . . He gives us Redford
warts and all." —The Observer (London)
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