William J. Mann, Author . Viking $29.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-670-03017-0
"Come next week if possible. Kathleen giving supper Sunday the 27th. Will ask her to include you and Gary. Want both to occupy one guest room? Answer soon as possible." An insignificant query? Not when you know that it was sent in 1929 to...
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William J. Mann, Author . Kensington $24 (426p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0326-7
Mann continues to chart the lives, lusts and losses of Jeff O'Brien and Lloyd Griffith, who first appeared in his 1997 novel, The Men from the Boys. This lively sequel finds them estranged after six years together, yet considering a...
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William J. Mann, Author . Kensington $24 (242p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0328-1
Mann (Where the Boys Are
) shifts gears from party-boy frivolity to the tragic consequences of buried family secrets in his most complex novel to date. Back home in pastoral Brown's Mill, struggling gay actor Wally Day reunites with his...
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William J. Mann, Author . Holt $30 (621p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7625-7
Mann, a skilled chronicler of gay Hollywood (Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines
), says at the onset it doesn't make sense to try to pin down Katharine Hepburn with modern labels of sexual identity. Mann's careful research on...
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William J. Mann, Author . Kensington $24 (314p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1375-4
The gift for character and architectonics Mann displays in his riveting film bios (including Kate
) gets stripped out of his third pulpy Provincetown novel, following Where the Boys Are
(2003). Mann switches focus from pop novelist Jeff O'Brien
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William J. Mann, Author . Kensington $24 (426p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1377-8
In Mann's ambitious if uneven latest (after Men Who Love Men
), a spiritually unfulfilled man still haunted by his sister's disappearance decades ago gets a shot at a fresh start. Former West Hollywood go-go boy Danny Fortunato has settled
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William J. Mann, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (496p) ISBN 978-0-547-13464-2
In his proficient and titillating biography of one of the last greats to emerge from the Hollywood studio system, Mann (Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn
) spotlights Taylor's feverish, sensuous years during the high '50s and '60s, when
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William J. Mann, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-94335-8
What begins as a novel look at gay life from Stonewall to Generation X ends as a New Age guidance novel along the lines of The Alchemist or The Celestine Prophecy. This said, Massachusetts journalist Mann is no Paulo Coelho or James Redfield, and...
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William J. Mann, Author Billboard Books $27.95 (628p) ISBN 978-0-8230-8366-4
""There never was anything else,"" British film director John Schlesinger confided about his life's work. Frail and slowed by a stroke in 2000, the subject of this moving, comprehensive and at times dishy biography shared these pearls with Mann just
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William J. Mann. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30 (567p) ISBN 978-0-547-36892-4
Bestselling biographer Mann (of Katharine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor) chronicles the dazzling series of events as Streisand “gate-crashed her way to fame.” Mann tightens the focus in this hefty volume to just the early, formative years of her...
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William J. Mann. Harper, $35 (640p) ISBN 978-0-06-238333-4
Celebrity biographer Mann (Tinseltown) extends his reach to politics with a chronicle of the Roosevelts that spans the presidencies of both Teddy and Franklin. Mann posits that the two Roosevelt clans, that of Oyster Bay (Teddy’s branch) and that of
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William J. Mann, Author, Michael Thomas Ford, Joint Author, Sean Wolfe, Joint Author Kensington Publishing Corporation $14 (362p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0421-9
Masters of Midnight gathers four erotic vampire novellas: ""His Hunger,"" by William J. Mann, ""Sting,"" by Michael Thomas Ford, ""Brandon's Bite,"" by Sean Ford, and ""Devoured,"" by Jeff Mann. As the cover art of one man embracing another...
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William J. Mann, Author, Mann, Author, Kensington, Producer Kensington Publishing Corporation $23 (468p) ISBN 978-1-57566-559-7
The birth of the film industry and the advent of the world's first film star, Florence Lawrence, the original ""Biograph Girl,"" form the basis of this fictionalized account of one woman's life in a burgeoning industry that changed the parameters of
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Jon Jeffrey, Author, Chris Kenry, Author, William J. Mann, Author . Kensington $15 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0310-6
Four of Kensington's most popular gay novelists contribute novellas to this collection of holiday-themed fiction that should fulfill most stocking-stuffer requirements. In Jeffrey's "He'll Be Mine by Christmas Morning," self-absor
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