YOUNG ORSON: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane by Patrick McGilligan
Finalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Biography
Harper Collins, November 17, 2015
“McGilligan’s Orson is a Welles for a new generation. His book has a quality more in tune with Patti Smith’s Just Kids than with McGilligan’s similarly lengthy and authoritative biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang. . . . McGilligan’s book vibrates with uncertainty and risk, and it hums with the possibility that talented people actually can realize their dreams in the forms they choose."--Bookforum
“Must reading for anyone interested in the history of film.”--Booklist, starred review
“Patrick McGilligan’s ‘Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane’, the product of years of meticulous research, may be the definitive account.-- New Yorker Magazine
