Barry Paris

Barry Paris originally attended Columbia University for film studies and Slavic languages, only becoming a writer later on. He has worked as both a movie and music reviewer for newspapers. He became a highly-acclaimed biographer, focusing first on the older film stars, then turning to stars of the '50s and '60s. His books are "Louise Brooks", "Garbo", "Audrey Hepburn", "Tony Curtis: The Autobiography", "Song of Haiti" about Dr. Larry Mellon, who started a hospital there and "Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov", which is an edited series of the acting teacher's lectures. He has also written New Yorker profiles on silent film star Lina Basquette and author Marcia Davenport, and an interview with Robert De Niro for American Film. Today, Paris lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he writes movie reviews for the Post-Gazette, works on a book about President Franklin Pierce and prepares another series of Stella Adler's lectures, this time with emphasis on the American Playwrights.