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Maurice Zolotow (November 23, 1913 - March 14, 1991〔(Listing from the Internet Movie Database )〕) was a show business biographer.〔(New York Times obituary of Zolotow )〕 He wrote books and magazine articles. His articles appeared in publications including ''Life'', ''Collier's Weekly'', ''Reader's Digest'', ''Look'',〔(Reprint of 1944 Look article quoting Zolotow )〕 ''Los Angeles'', and many others. His book ''Marilyn Monroe'' 〔(Amazon page on Zolotow's Monroe book, which lists 23 subsequent Monroe biographies which reference it )〕〔(Series of 1955 articles on Monroe )〕 was the first written on the iconic actress and the only one published during her lifetime. Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he met his future wife, Charlotte Shapiro. In 1936, after graduation, Zolotow took a job at ''Billboard'', then a publication covering not just the music business, but all aspects of show business. Zolotow was an early jazz lover and gave Duke Ellington his first national review. Zolotow remained devoted to pop culture, literature (one of his closest friends was poet Delmore Schwartz),〔(Amazon link to James Atlas's biography of Schwartz, in which Zolotow is interviewed )〕 politics, and magic. As a child, Zolotow recalled seeing Harry Houdini perform at Coney Island and based his novel, ''The Great Balsamo'', on the famous magician. In later life, Zolotow befriended contemporary magician Ricky Jay. Strangely enough, one of Zolotow's first books, published only in London in 1948, was about Dr. Maurice William, a Russian-born New York dentist and former Socialist, whose 1920 critique of Marxist economics had supposedly influenced Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen, shortly before his death, to rethink his earlier sympathy for Communism.〔"Maurice William and Sun Yat-sen" (Robert Hale, London, 1948)〕 Other biographies by Zolotow include ''Shooting Star'', about John Wayne,〔(Link to Booksellers page on Shooting Star )〕 ''Stagestruck: The Romance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne'', concerning the husband and wife Broadway legends,〔(Link to HK Books Online )〕 and ''Billy Wilder in Hollywood'', about the Oscar-winning director and screenwriter.〔(Link to Amazon page on Billy Wilder in Hollywood )〕〔(Scholarly article on Wilder's film Sunset Boulevard, which cites Zolotow's book )〕 He also wrote shorter celebrity profiles on such entertainers as Tallulah Bankhead, Walter Matthau, Grace Kelly, and Milton Berle. Zolotow also wrote occasionally on food and alcohol, including several articles on the latter for ''Playboy''. His 1971 piece on absinthe〔(The Virtual Absinthe Museum )〕 has been widely reprinted. His book, ''Confessions of a Race Track Fiend'', describes Zolotow's own experiences playing the horses at Southern California tracks. He lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, for much of his adult life, but moved to Los Angeles, California, after his divorce. He had two children, poker enthusiast Steve Zolotow〔(Profile of Stephen Zolotow on Poker Pages )〕 and author Crescent Dragonwagon.〔(Link to Crescent Dragonwagon's website )〕 His former wife, to whom he was married from 1938 to 1969, was children's author and editor Charlotte Zolotow.,〔(Charlotte Zolotow's website, which includes many photographs of the couple )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maurice Zolotow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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