Oscar Micheaux The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker by Patrick McGilligan

Oscar Micheaux, the son of freed slaves, was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D.W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical investigation and vivid storytelling, on of our greatest film biographers takes on one of the most talented and complex figures in the history of American entertainment.

Hardcover
Black & White Images
366 pages
ISBN: 978-0-06-073139-7

About the author: Patrick McGilligan's biographies include the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light and the New York Times Notable Books Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast and George Cukor: A Double Life. He has also penned biographies of Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Altman, and James Cagney, along with the oral history Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. McGilligan lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Image description: The cover illustration features a striking portrait of Oscar Micheaux. There is a tripod with a vintage camera shining a light on his head. The title is printed in red letters on a banner across the top of the cover. The subtitle is printed below that, and the author's name is printed at the bottom of the cover.