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The Lives of Robert Ryan
"[A]n engaging biography of a Golden Age movie star who was a welcome presence even if — and perhaps particularly when — he lit up the screen with a sneer and filled it with menace.
Robert ryan author biography book
Examples of author biography How to write author biography Famous american author biography What is a author biography His many lives — stage and television performer, political activist, progressive education proponent, husband and father — are finely detailed by Jones with the help of Ryan's private writings and those of his wife, Jessica, a novelist.
Jones describes a complex man who grappled publicly with the world's demons and privately with his own, among them alcohol and depression."
~Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press
""Ryan was born in Chicago, so it's fitting that a Chicago critic would be behind the new biography The Lives of Robert Ryan.
Written by the Chicago Reader's J.R. Jones, the book provides the first extensive look at Ryan's life, from his life as a child of a Chicago contractor with strong political ties to his work as a liberal activist at the height of the blackli