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<p> In recent years writer-director Richard Brooks has been making frequent, noisy walk-on appearances in other people's biographies, picking fights, yelling, being fantastically rude and abrasive, and prompting this reader many times to think, 'Wow, I want to read his biography.' Well, here it is, and it delivers. Not only do we get the very best/worst of Brooks' incredibly irascible on-set personality, we get to see beyond the barking autocrat and observe what several friends and co-workers call 'the mischievous twinkle in his eye, ' which suggested that the other stuff was maybe all a nervous put-on. More important, author Douglass K. Daniel is cleareyed in his assessment of the enduring value and power of Brooks' best work. -- The DGA Quarterly

<p>&ldquo;Douglass Daniel has nailed Richard Brooks. It is high time for this engrossing and revelatory account of his life, his work and his creative drive. This places Brooks where he rightfully belongs, among the greats of cinema history.&rdquo;&mdash;Scott Wilson, actor who portrayed Dick Hickock in In Cold Blood

In recent years writer-director Richard Brooks has been making frequent, noisy walk-on appearances in other people s biographies, picking fights, yelling, being fantastically rude and abrasive, and prompting this reader many times to think, Wow, I want to read his biography. Well, here it is, and it delivers. Not only do we get the very best/worst of Brooks incredibly irascible on-set personality, we get to see beyond the barking autocrat and observe what several friends and co-workers call the mischievous twinkle in his eye, which suggested that the other stuff was maybe all a nervous put-on. More important, author Douglass K. Daniel is cleareyed in his assessment of the enduring value and power of Brooks best work. The DGA Quarterly

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Douglass K. Daniel is a writer and editor with the Associated Press. He is author of Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News and Lou Grant: The Making of TV’s Top Newspaper Drama.

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