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Informationen zum Autor Wiliam J. Mann has written for the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times , the Hartford Courant, Salon , and other publications. He is the author of Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn ; Edge of Midnight : The Life of John Schlesinger; Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood ; and Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines . He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Klappentext By the time of her death in 2003 at the age of 96, Katherine Hepburn had long been an American institution. William Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star known simply as 'Kate', dazzling audiences for fifty years in the company of such luminaries as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and, most memorably, Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine movies and conducted a long off-screen romance. Hepburn won her fourth Oscar aged 74 and made her swansong movie at 87. Across seventy years in the public eye, she was a cut above the usual screen queen. Now William Mann looks beyond the legend to consider apart the life and the persona of Katharine Hepburn. Kate: The Woman Who Was Katharine Hepburn by William J. Mann is t he sparkling biography of one of the most fascinating, enduring and popular of Hollywood icons. Zusammenfassung William Mann charts the journey by which Kathy Hepburn of Hartford, Connecticut, became the star who dazzled audiences for decades in the company of such luminaries as Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and, most memorably, Spencer Tracy, with whom she made nine movies and conducted a long off-screen romance.
