ROBERT EMMET LONG is a recognized critic of the performing arts. Long has contributed over four hundred articles to many journals and magazines including The Nation, Commonweal, and Saturday Review. He has also been a drama critic in New York for the North American Review. Long lives in Fulton, New York. Robert Emmet Long is uniquely qualified to write on the lives and careers of Broadway's foremost choreographer-directors. His definitive The Films of Merchant Ivory is published by Harry N. Abrams and has gone through two editions. Long is a recognized critic of American and British literature, and a commentator on the performing arts. He is either the author or editor of some 30 books, the subjects of which include Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John O'Hara, Nathaniel West, James Thurber, and Barbara Pym.
"This fine book will be greeted with applause by the many Broadway buffs, show-tune collectors and musical mavens. Publishers Weekly Broadway, the Golden Years, is really seven books in one. It traces a unique and fascinating facet of Broadway history through mini-biographies of its six foremost practitioners, plus a roundup of who's working today. Playbill On-Line Deftly depicting the relationships among many diverse artists, Long warmly conveys his sense of theatre history and the craft tradition as a living chain of gifted individuals who were nurtured and challenged by those who preceded them. Washington Post Book World
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