Author Spotlight

​Sydney Ladensohn Stern

Sydney Ladensohn Stern’s Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics is her second biography. Her first was Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique. She lives in New York and has contributed to many publications including the New York Times, Air Mail, Literary Hub, Publishers Weekly, and Commentary.

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The Man in the Wings: David Fincher on the Shadowy Life of Herman Mankiewicz

The witty and notoriously tempestuous Citizen Kane screenwriter comes into focus in this conversation between a Mankiewicz biographer and Fincher, whose new film Mank is remarkably faithful to the details of Hollywood history.

By ​Sydney Ladensohn Stern

Interviews— Jan 14, 2021