Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael

Francis Davis

Hachette Books, Aug 21, 2003 - Social Science - 144 pages

On September 3, 2001, the movies and those who love them lost one of their greatest friends - a friend who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer and didn't shrink from speaking her mind. This is a biography of the ascerbic and witty film critic Pauline Kael.

About the author

Francis Davis is a contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and writes regularly for the New York Times and the New Yorker. He is the author of the acclaimed books Outcats and History of the Blues and a biography of John Coltrane (Knopf). He lives in Philadelphia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael
• Author: Francis Davis
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Hachette Books, 2003
• ISBN: 0306812304, 9780306812309
• Length: 144 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies