Paul Newman: A Biography.

Paul Newman was among the most admired and enduring stars of the American screen, an actor of extraordinary range and charisma whose career spanned half a century in films including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting, and The Color of Money, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Renowned equally for his piercing blue eyes, his devotion to his marriage with Joanne Woodward, his passion for auto racing, and his tireless philanthropy through the Newman’s Own food company and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children, Newman became an icon of integrity and generosity as much as of Hollywood glamour. Eric Lax, best known as the biographer of Woody Allen and Humphrey Bogart, here surveys Newman’s life and work in a lavishly illustrated volume. Items inscribed by the notably private Newman are uncommon, and this warmly personal inscription makes for a particularly desirable association copy.