Jon Boorstin

About Jon Boorstin : His first novel, Pay or Play , was called "the definitive send-up of Hollywood" by Publishers Weekly in a coveted starred review. His second, The Newsboys' Lodging-House , won the New York Society Library Award for Historical Fiction. Boorstin has also written a book of practical film theory, Making Movies Work , which is used in film schools all over the world. The work of an Oscar(R)-nominated documentary filmmaker and longtime screenwriter and producer, Mabel and Me is...See more

About Jon Boorstin : His first novel, Pay or Play , was called "the definitive send-up of Hollywood" by Publishers Weekly in a coveted starred review. His second, The Newsboys' Lodging-House , won the New York Society Library Award for Historical Fiction. Boorstin has also written a book of practical film theory, Making Movies Work , which is used in film schools all over the world. The work of an Oscar(R)-nominated documentary filmmaker and longtime screenwriter and producer, Mabel and Me is the culmination of Boorstin's lifelong affair with the Movies. See less