Harlow Robinson is professor of History and Screen and Media Studies Emeritus at Northeastern University. He is the author of Sergei Prokofiev: A Biography; The Last Impresario: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Sol Hurok; Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image; and editor and translator of Selected Letters of Sergei Prokofiev. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Opera News, Musical America, Cineaste, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. In 2010 he was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
A welcome biography of a man whose films remain better known than
his name. . . . Robinson concentrates on the key aspects of
Milestone's life and career, never getting bogged down in plot
synopses or other minor issues. Rather than shoveling up endless
rubble, he offers us the milestones of Milestone. Robinson's story
is as tight as most classic Hollywood films, and that deserves to
be heralded. This is a book equally as valuable to film buffs as to
academic scholars, speaking to readers inside and outside the
academy.-- "LA Review of Books"
Comprehensive and highly readable.-- "Sheldon Kirshner Journal"
This highly readable biography of Lewis Milestone delivers the
definitive study of a leading Jewish émigré director in Hollywood
from the 1920s to the 1960s who worked successfully across multiple
genres. Robinson seamlessly layers the scholarly expertise of a
noted film historian of Russia and the Soviet Union with a
novelist's gift for narrative power and dramatic flair, bringing
long overdue attention to Milestone's fascinating life and enduring
artistic achievements.--Catherine Portuges, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
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