Spark your creativity, hone your writing, and improve your scripts with the self-contained character, scene, and story exercises found in this classic guide.Having spent decades working with dramatists to refine and expand their existing plays and screenplays, Dunne effortlessly blends condensed dramatic theory with specific action steps—over sixty workshop-tested exercises that can be adapted to virtually any individual writing process and dramatic script. Dunne's ...

The author of The Dramatic Writer's Companion offers forty-two new exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters explore, develop, and strengthen their work.Will Dunne first captured the workshop experience in The Dramatic Writer's Companion, offering practical exercises to help playwrights and screenwriters work through the problems that arise in developing their scripts. Now writers looking to further enhance their storytelling process can turn...

"Together with The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Dunne's The Architecture of Story is part of the most thorough course in playwriting available in print." —Art Borreca, head of Dramaturgy Program and co-head of Playwrights Workshop, the University of IowaWhile successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should be constructed. Instead, seasoned playwrights know how to select the right elem...

Discover the True Tale of the Strangest Heist in American History!Step into the shadowy world of 19th-century crime with The Roper, a gripping play by Will Dunne. When a small-time crook is recruited by the Secret Service to infiltrate an Irish counterfeiting ring, he thinks he's found an easy score. But as he delves deeper, he uncovers a plot more audacious - and dangerous - than he ever imagined, a scheme that will go down as one of history's strangest a...

From the world's #1 bestselling author, the story of the Kennedy family ... not the one you think you know.Now with a bonus chapter!“James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history ... re-telling the political clan’s rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style.” —PeopleThe Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! THIS NEW AND UPDATED EDITION FINALLY PROVES THE SHOCKING IDENTITY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA KILLER—AND THE POLICE CORRUPTION THAT CONCEALED IT FOR SO LONGIn 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public for weeks, but his identity stayed a mystery, and the murder remained the most tantalizing unsolved case of the ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • With a new afterword by the author in honor of Frank Sinatra’s 100th birthdayThis is the book that Frank Sinatra tried—but failed—to keep from publication, and it’s easy to understand why. This unauthorized biography goes behind the iconic myth of Sinatra to expose the well-hidden side of one of the most celebrated—and elusive—public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching governm...

From the world’s #1 bestselling author, The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe is a true crime thriller about a woman who changed Hollywood history, and whose indelible image captures our imagination to this day.**“Electrifying … A spellbinding new account of the star’s final days by the world’s greatest thriller writer." —**Daily MailIn life, Marilyn Monroe’s superstardom defies classification. ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film’s original release.The story of how The Godfather was made is as dramatic, operatic, and entertaining as the film itself. Over the years, many versions of various aspects of the movie’s fiery creation have been told—sometimes confl...

Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.With black-and-white photographs from the author's archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture i...

Was Albert DeSalvo Really the Boston Strangler?Handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape/murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he had raped an additional 2,000 women. His story became the subject of a bestselling book, a major Hollywood movie, and a Hulu docuseries. But DeSalvo was not The Boston Strangler.Author Susan Kelly’s detailed investigation shows us the true DeSalvo—a pathological liar whose...

In this candid biography Lawrence Grobel chronicles the remarkable story of the Huston family, which boasts three Oscar winners, from Walter to John to Anjelica, with particular attention to the rich career and tumultuous personal life of director/actor John Huston (1906-1987). This updated edition covers Anjelica's stormy relationship with Jack Nicholson, her liberating marriage to artist Robert Graham, the exploits of her brothers Tony and Danny, the mysterious silence of Maricela, John'...