Donald Spoto

Donald Spoto's first book The Art of Alfred Hitchcock is considered a classic. Published in 1976, and celebrated by the director himself, the book remains in print. Other subjects of Donald's award-winning and international best-selling biographies include Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Ingrid Bergman and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. His books have been published in more than twenty languages and he executive produced two of them for television. Donald, who has a PhD in theology, has also published in the field of spirituality and religious biography to critical acclaim.

Born in 1941, Donald was on the faculties of Fairfield University, the College of New Rochelle, the New School for Social Research and the University of Southern California before becoming a full-time writer. Still in demand as a lecturer in Europe and America, he was recently appointed Visiting Guest Lecturer at the Danish Film Institute.