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This is a list of Hollywood novels i.e., notable fiction about the American film and television industry and associated culture. The Hollywood novel is not to be confused with the Los Angeles novel, which is a novel set in Los Angeles and environs but not overtly about the movie business and its effect on the lives of industry participants and moviegoers.
William J. Mann (born August 7, 1963) is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian [1] best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry, especially his 2006 biography of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Kate was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times. [2]
Balio, Tino. (1996). United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry.University of Wisconsin Press. Eames, John Douglas. (1991). The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years.
We ranked the best Hollywood books of all time in advance of this year's Festival of Books. Now we want to hear about your favorites — including any we missed.
Here are some of the best responses. We chose our Ultimate Hollywood Bookshelf, and readers responded with the many, many titles we missed. Here are some of the best responses.
Sam Wasson is an American author and publisher, who often writes about the history of cinema in Hollywood. His works include the biography Fosse, the history books Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood and the co-authored Hollywood: The Oral History.
Hollywood is the fifth historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. [1] Published in 1990, it brings back the fictional Caroline Sanford, Blaise Sanford and James Burden Day and the real Theodore Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst from Empire (the fourth novel in the series).
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