Donald Spoto
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Donald Spoto has written many bestselling biographies of film and theatre stars, including Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Ingrid Bergman, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Alan Bates. A native of New Rochelle, NY, he lives in Denmark.

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Insist on the Truth -- Even When It's Good News

Posted October 28, 2010 | 17:00:11 (EST)

As the author of twenty-six books, most of them biographies, I've developed a kind of motto: "The biographer is obliged to tell the truth--even when it means saying something good about someone." This is not always a popular position to stake.

Twenty years ago, for example, I began research for...

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