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JonTheBiographer

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This is the first biography of screenwriter Ernest Lehman (1915-2005), whose films include "North By …

Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success

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This is my own book, so I won't review it.

It will be published on September 27, 2022, by the University Press of Kentucky as part of its Screen Classics series.

Julia Voznesenskaya: The women's Decameron (Russian language, 1986, Quartet)

The Women's Decameron

I read this when it came out, in 1986 -- reviewed it for The Daily News of Los Angeles. It's an inspired update of The Decameron, set, if I remember correctly, in a maternity ward in a hospital in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Not that well-known, but should be.