John Baxter, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (417p) ISBN 978-0-312-31725-6
As he stooped over a basket full of stuffed animals at a London flea market, Baxter (Robert de Niro; George Lucas) made a discovery that would change his life forever. It was there, in 1978, that he unearthed a children's book by Graham Greene,...
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John Baxter, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-06-083288-9
Perhaps no city has been more lustfully romanticized than Paris, and this cavorting collection of bons mots will do nothing to quell its erotic reputation. Baxter (A Pound of Paper
), a cineast and biographer (of Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and...
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John Baxter, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $17.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0485-9
The Bronx-born director of Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange has lived reclusively in England since 1961. This somewhat prosaic life serves as a breezy introduction to his acclaimed oeuvre, but does not bring us closer to
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John Baxter, Author HarperCollins (UK) $13.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-00-653230-9
According to prolific film biographer Baxter (The Hollywood Exiles, etc.), ""Rage is Robert De Niro's gift to the cinema."" In this unauthorized, carefully researched biography, Baxter traces the enigmatic actor's life, starting with his formative...
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John Baxter, Author William Morrow & Company $27.5 (450p) ISBN 978-0-380-97833-5
An astute look behind the myths of the man and his work, this intelligent biography delivers a mixed verdict on director/ producer George Lucas's films: ""Thanks to him... American popular culture had been immeasurably enriched in technique, widened
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John Baxter, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-312-11273-8
Flamboyant Italian director Federico Fellini kept a detailed dream diary which became the source for nearly all his later films, among them Casanova and 81/2. His immersion in Carl Jung's theories, obsession with the occult and reliance on psychics...
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John Baxter, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $24 (324p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0506-1
This vibrant, anecdote-packed biography of Spanish film director Luis Bunuel (1900-1983) provides an intimate portrait of a secretive man. Baxter (Stanley Kubrick) zeroes in on the obsessions that drove the filmmaker and nurtured his films:...
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John Baxter, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (457p) ISBN 978-0-00-255587-6
Prolific film biographer and historian Baxter (Fellini) bases this unauthorized biography of the superstar filmmaker largely on press accounts and other people's interviews. This isn't a major handicap, for, he says, Spielberg is ""almost obsessive...
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John Baxter, Author Da Capo Press $27 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0666-2
Given the maelstrom of Allen's recent life, this engaging new biography is welcome, even if not definitive. Baxter (The Hollywood Exiles) follows Allen's tangled amours and artistic discoveries from his childhood in Brooklyn through his stint as a...
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John Baxter. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-199854-6
Biographer and critic Baxter serves as an inestimable guide to the boulevards, alleys, and streets of the City of Lights in this lovingly crafted and gorgeous memoir of his strolls in Paris. For Baxter, as for the flaneurs who have come before him,...
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John Baxter, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-06-156233-4
In this witty essay collection, Baxter (We’ll Always Have Paris
) chronicles his years of learning to prepare elaborate Christmas dinners for his French in-laws. After leaving his Los Angeles home to follow a woman (who would later become his...
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John Baxter. Harper Perennial, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-208806-2
Confronting the disturbing fact that in 2011, two thirds of French restaurant owners confessed to concocting their meals with "bought, canned, frozen, or boil-in-a-bag portions," John Baxter (The Most Beautiful Walk in the World) undertakes a...
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John Baxter. Harper Perennial, $17.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-284688-4
Baxter (The Most Beautiful Walk in the World) invites Francophiles to explore Paris in all its seasons in this insightful if meandering memoir. Baxter surmises that Parisians, in particular, “are used to living by... the seasons”—whether that means...
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John Baxter. Museyon, $19.95 trade paper (260p) ISBN 978-1-940-84272-1
Memoirist and Francophile Baxter (A Year in Paris) offers an alluring collection of essays focused on the Parisian “culture of acceptance and acquiescence” in the boudoir. He combines personal reflections with a literary-historical account of...
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