James Spada is the author of fourteen books, including the
international bestsellers Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the
Secrets, Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess, Monroe: Her Life in
Pictures, and Streisand: The Woman and the Legend.
Born and raised in Staten Island, New York, he founded a Marilyn
Monroe Fan Club at thirteen and edited its journals for four years.
As a college student in 1969, he began a political quarterly
devoted exclusively to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He spent the
summer of 1970 as a Senate intern in Kennedy's Boston office.
In 1977, Spada became the only author to write an authorized career
biography of Robert Redford. In 1981 and 1982, his best-selling
pictorial books about Barbra Streisand and Marilyn Monroe were
published, followed by studies of Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli,
Bette Midler, Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty, and
Katharine Hepburn. His 1987 book, Grace, spent nine weeks on the
New York Times bestseller list and was translated in thirteen
languages. His Peter Lawford biography was serialized by Vanity
Fair in 1991 and also became a New York Times bestseller.
He lives in Los Angeles.
Biographer Spada presents the life story of the multi-talented entertainer. (Sept.)
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