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An irresistible biography of the accomplished, controversial actress whose roles on screen and off helped define a generation. Whether you love Jane Fonda or abhor her, "Jane Fonda" is a detailed and generous exploration not only of the contradictory world Fonda grew up in but of the many people who shaped her. Jeannette Walls, author of "The Glass Castle"
Patricia Bosworth has gone beyond the image of an American superwoman to reveal a Jane Fonda more powerful and vulnerable than ever expected. Fonda emerged from a heartbreaking Hollywood family drama to become a 60s onscreen ingenue and...

(Limelight). ..".Because of Bosworth's artistry, her ability to choose the right details, and her own immersion in the subject... this book is an amazing excursion into a life." New York Times Book Review "It stands as the definitive work on the gifted, haunted actor." Los Angeles Times "Here it is the real thing inside Montgomery CLift. I've known other actors as well, but none with such a harrowing tale. I kept wondering, could Patricia Bosworth have been there? Everywhere? The book is that vivid and intimate." Elia Kazan

Through the prism of the life of her father--lawyer and well-known political activist Bartley Crum--Patricia Bosworth sheds light on an important era in modern American history--from the heady, hope-filled days of Roosevelt's New Deal to the dawn of the Cold War. of photos.

Diane Arbus's photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks were becoming part of the iconography of the age when Arbus committed suicide in 1971. This book examines Diane's life through: her childhood; her marriage to Allan Arbus; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and more.