The Road to Xanadu

"A splendidly entertaining, definitive work."--Entertainment Weekly

In this first installment of his masterful biography, Simon Callow captures the chameleonic genius of Orson Welles as only an actor/director deeply rooted in the entertainment industry could. Here is Welles's prodigious childhood; his youth in New York, with its fraught partnership with John Houseman and the groundbreaking triumph of his all-black Macbeth; the pioneering radio work that culminated in the notorious 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds; and finally, his work in Hollywood, including an authoritative account of the making of Citizen Kane. Rich in detail and insight, this is far and away the definitive look at Orson Welles--a figure even more extraordinary than the myths that have surrounded him.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/01/1997
ISBN: 9780140254563
Pages: 688
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.54w x 1.48d

Review Citations: New York Times 05/25/1997 pg. 24
New Yorker (The) 12/07/2015 pg. 72