GARSON KANIN (1912-1999) was an esteemed theater and film director, as well as a prolific writer. In addition to short stories and essays, he wrote novels and memoirs, among them One Hell of an Actor, A Thousand Summers, Smash, Hollywood, Remembering Mr. Maugham, and Tracy and Hepburn. After making his theatrical debut as an actor, he became a stage director and then a director for RKO with the films A Man to Remember (1938) and My Favorite Wife (1940). During World War II, he co-directed the Academy Award-winning documentary The True Glory. He followed this success by writing and directing the play Born Yesterday. Over the next four decades, he wrote numerous plays, including Peccadillo, Remembering Mr. Maugham, The Rat Race, and The Smile of the World. With wife Ruth Gordon, he wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplays A Double Life, Adam’s Rib and Pat and Mike. Ruth Gordon died in 1985, and Kanin married Marian Seldes in 1990. He died at his home in New York in 1999. www.garsonkanin.com

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