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Paul Fischer

Biography

Paul Fischer

Paul Fischer is the author of A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION (2015), shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Dagger and chosen as an Amazon Best of the Year Nonfiction Selection, one of Library Journal’s Top Ten Books of the Year, one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best of 2015, and one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year, and THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES (2022), a New York Times Editor’s Choice and selected as one of the Times’s Best True Crime Books of the year. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Independent, Bright Wall / Dark Room and the Narwhal.

Paul Fischer

Books by Paul Fischer

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg ― and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema
by Paul Fischer - Biography, Nonfiction, Performing Arts

In the summer of 1967, as the old Hollywood studio system was dying, an intense, uncompromising young film school graduate named George Lucas walked onto the Warner Bros. backlot for his first day working as an assistant to another up-and-coming, largely unknown filmmaker, Francis Ford Coppola. At the exact same time, across town on the Universal Studios lot, a film-obsessed 20-year-old, Steven Spielberg, longed to break free from his apprenticeship for the struggling studio and become a film director in his own right. Within a year, the three men would become friends. THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD tells the thrilling, dramatic inside story of how the three filmmakers rivalled and supported each other, fell out and reconciled, and struggled to reinvent popular American cinema.