Patrick McGilligan

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<p>Patrick McGilligan is the author of <em>Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness</em> <em>and Light</em>; <em>Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast</em>; and <em>George Cukor: A Double Life</em>; and books on the lives of directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux, and actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the acclaimed five-volume <em>Backstory</em> series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle), the definitive <em>Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist</em>. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, not far from Kenosha, where Orson Welles was born.</p>