D. W. Griffith: An American Life in Bloomington, MN

(Limelight). "This magnificent and important biography...is the best ever written on the man." The New Republic ; "Mr. Schickel's excellent and important biography makes it clear that when the movers of our century are tallied, D.W. Griffith, flawed genius that he was, can never lose his eminent position." Peter Bogdanovich, The New York Times Book Review