born december pulitzer prize winning american biographer graduating princeton_university expanded senior thesis editor length biography editor genius won national book award second book biography published book highly anticipated biography aviator published winning pulitzer prize biography autobiography published biography cum memoir friendship actress received mixed reviews book wilson biography published september wrote story making love controversial film major studio drama address subjects gay love marriages coming contributed articles magazines vanity_fair life early life work born connecticut son barbara film producer raised jewish family relocated los_angeles california sophomore researched author favorite barbara named son report developed writing read works later recalled time saw fusion artist life tragic romantic life scott applied princeton_university primarily alma mater accepted princeton performed theater troupe considered dropping actor convinced english professor regarded biographer graduate actor college degree studied baker offered constant encouragement counsel senior thesis study editor career graduating princeton decided expand thesis length biography thinking months formulated career plan time later recalled tell early think interesting spend career writing half dozen biographies twentieth century american cultural figures use metaphor different wedge great apple pie biography editor genius took longer anticipated eventually published won national book award biography approached write biography father independent film producer initially turned project telling interested american culture hollywood changed mind visiting archives discovering dinner parties biographer dream won fellowship helped finance work biography year wrote story making love controversial film major studio drama address subjects homosexual love marriages coming narrated directed documentary filmmaker interviewed published biography second biography completing began search subject wanted great american cultural figure written somebody worlds publishing film briefly considering decided research aviator attracted described dramatic possibilities story great hero great victim great villain convinced widow grant unprecedented access man archives surprised find totaled boxes million papers biography highly anticipated prior publication book film rights bought sight unseen steven_spielberg planned direct movie published sold copies hardcover won pulitzer prize biography autobiography noted research sympathetic means approach alleged anti addressed straightforward manner recent work wrote biography cum memoir detailing year friendship hollywood actress book published days hepburn death spent weeks list received uneasy critical response new_york_times called odd unsettling book leaves sense exploitation gossip columnist friend hepburn called vain declared book promoting hepburn despised betrayal friendship responded written statement saying truly shocked professional behaviour accurately lack thereof personal assault reputation stops short character assassination served princeton_university began researching biography says image mind unlike picture seen based material princeton years researching thinking march involved film production project transforming 1960s television program feature film delayed wilson biography months wilson published september personal life lives friend film producer los_angeles brothers ceo leading hollywood talent literary agency music producer musician youngest brother partner manager production company niece musician like
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