"Mark Harris has pulled off brilliantly what many of us only attempt. He has used a narrowly focused subject — five movies competing for Best Picture in 1967 — to tell the larger, richly textured story of that tumultuous time. He traces the making of each of the movies-among them, Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate — with the kind of detailed, dramatic narrative that makes the book a page-turner, even for someone who is not a movie buff. And his profiles of the major characters (my favorites were Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty, and Mike Nichols) are the most interesting I've seen."
— Connie Bruck, author of The Predator's Ball, Masters of the Game, and When Hollywood Was King
For fifteen years, Mark Harris worked as a writer and editor covering movies, television and books for Entertainment Weekly, where he now writes the back-page column "Final Cut". He has written about pop culture for many other publications as well, most recently Slate and The New York Times. A graduate of Yale University, he lives in New York City with his husband, Tony Kushner.