The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.