Woke up with some good news this morning:
My new book, WORLD'S COOLEST MOVIE STAR: THE COMPLETE 95 FILMS (AND LEGEND) OF JEAN GABIN (Allenwood Press) has won First Place (Gold) in the USA Book News National Best Book Awards for 2009, in the category of Performing Arts.
The two-volume book is a complete biography and filmography of the legendary French movie star, who starred in such internationally recognized classic films as Pepe Le Moko, La Grande Illusion, Le Jour se leve, La Bete humaine, and Le Quai des brumes.
Gabin has always been considered to be France's #1 movie star of all time, and the goal of my book is for the actor to be as apreciated in the English-speaking world as he's always been in the France. To that end, the tone of the book is "fun" and "accessible," and each of the two volumes features more than 100 photographs.
Actresses Brigitte Bardot and Michele Morgan have written original forewords and David Mamet has contributed an appreciation.
Learn more about the book at:
www.jeangabinbook.com
To read about the 2009 USA Book News National Book Awards, go to:
http://www.usabooknews.com/2009bestbooksawards.html
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