At twenty-seven, John Sayles wrote the Best American Short Story for 1977, and critics compared him to William Faulkner, John Steinback, and Ernest Hemingway. Two years later, he produced and directed the classic college reunion film, The Return of the Secaucus Seven, called by Entertainment Weekly, the most important film of the modern era. In 1983, the MacArthur Foundation presented him with its "Genius Award." He was thirty-two years old.
A new John Sayles biography now goes behind the scenes and into the career of America's leading independent filmmaker. You'll find out how this creative maverick keeps bucking the Hollywood system, yet getting his movies for adults and about adults onto the screen-and always with his right to the final cut. Learn why stars like James Earl Jones, Chris Cooper, Frances McDormand, and Kris Kristoferson contend for roles in his movies and at half their normal pay. And why producers call him the best script docter in the business. Based on interviews with scores of family, friends, and co-workers, the book covers the life of John Sayles from his boyhood in Schenectady to the Cannes Film Festival and Oscar Night in Hollywood.
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