William J. Mann

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Full Name	William J. Mann
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Aug 7, 1963(1963-08-07)
Age	61
Country	United States
Birth City	United States of America
Horoscope	Leo

William J. Mann Biography

William J. Mann is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on August 7, 1963 in United States of America, United States. William J. Mann (born 7 August 1963) is an American writer, biographer, and Hollywood historian who is best recognized for his research on Hollywood as well as his work on the American movie industry. particularly his biographies of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who was Hepburn. Kate was selected as among the top 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times.

Hello Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand (Houghton Mifflin) came out in 2012. “A fresh exploration of the early years of Streisand,” said for the Washington Post. “Trying to unravel the Barbra Streisand mystery is not an simple task however, Mann masterfully captures the beginning of her career’s remarkable accomplishments in the early 1960s , when an unpretentious’star’ was born. Mann’s meticulous research and insightful analysis go further than any biography previously written …” stated in USA Today.

Mann’s biographical work on Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn was listed as among the Best Books of the year in 2006 by Publishers Weekly, that gave an acclamation and said, “Hepburn’s siblings and contemporaries (now free to speak after her death) make major corrections to earlier Hepburn biographies, creating a picture of a complex woman rather than the icon she worked hard to become in the public’s eye. This will surely be the definitive version of Hepburn’s life for decades to come, as it is an outstanding example of painstaking research matched with splendid writing.” The year 2009 was the year that Mann published How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood. “Reading this life is like gorging on a chocolate sundae,” Publishers Weekly wrote about the book. “This is a smart book about a surprisingly savvy superstar. It’s one of the best Hollywood biographies I’ve ever read,” said Ed Sikov, author of Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis.

William J. Mann Net Worth

William J. Mann is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William J. Mann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started his career as a reporter at the now defunct Hartford Monthly magazine. He worked as a freelancer for among them, Architectural Digest, Connecticut magazine, Men’s Fitness, Frontiers (Los Angeles) as well as The Boston Phoenix. From 1992 until 1995 Mann worked as a co-publisher on Metroline magazine, which was a gay-lesbian newspaper based out of Hartford, Connecticut.

Mann’s debut novel The Men From the Boys came out in 1997 by Dutton on the year 1997. Mann continued to write a series of novels that are set in Provincetown however, he is also setting his work within Palm Springs and Los Angeles. Mann also wrote Mann has also written nonfiction novels Wisecracker (1998) The Wisecracker (1998), an autobiography of the film actor William Haines, for which Mann won the Lambda Literary Award, Behind the Screen The Story of the Way Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood (2001) and Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger (2005).

Mann’s next book, Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (HarperCollins, 2014), is the story of how the Hollywood studio system and the Hays Office were established during the early 1920s, told alongside the famous, unsolved murder mystery of director William Desmond Taylor, which Mann solves. Tinseltown was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2015 Edgar Award (presented by the Mystery Writers of America) as Best Fact Crime Book of the Year. NPR named it one of the best books of the year, adding “Brings the early days of the movie industry to sparkling life.” Rex Reed raved: “Sex! Drama! Scandal! If you have the slightest curiosity about the dark purple scars of Hollywood history, this is the go-to book you cannot miss. . . Epic and fabulous—every page is haunting, every chapter a film noir. I was up all night.”

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William J. Mann celebrates birthday on August 7 of every year.