Mike Nichols: A Life

Name: Mike Nichols: A Life
ISBN: 9781594206054

by Mark Harris

National Book · 2021 · Shortlist

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Penguin PressSeptember 14, 2021Biography & Memoir NonfictionISBN 9781594206054

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

Mark Harris's biography of the director Mike Nichols — who transformed American comedy, theater, and film across six decades — draws on extensive interviews with Nichols himself and his collaborators. Shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Mark HarrisAmerican

Mark Harris (1922–2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator best known for his baseball novels featuring the character Henry Wiggen, especially Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), which was adapted into a television production starring Paul Newman and a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro. After early careers in journalism and U.S. Army service during World War II, he earned a PhD in American Studies and taught English at universities including San Francisco State and Arizona State until 2001, producing critically acclaimed works like The Southpaw (1953), Wake Up, Stupid (1959), and biographies of Vachel Lindsay and Saul Bellow. Read more →