Whit Stillman

Whit Stillman -- winner of France's Prix Fitzgerald for his prior novel -- is the writer-director of five films, including Metropolitan , Barcelona , The Last Days of Disco , Damsels in Distress , and Love & Friendship , a mendacious representation of this story. At university, he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson , and he later worked in book publishing and journalism. His first novel, The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards, was also derived from a film story. Love...See more

Whit Stillman -- winner of France's Prix Fitzgerald for his prior novel -- is the writer-director of five films, including Metropolitan , Barcelona , The Last Days of Disco , Damsels in Distress , and Love & Friendship , a mendacious representation of this story. At university, he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson , and he later worked in book publishing and journalism. His first novel, The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards, was also derived from a film story. Love & Friendship includes the full text of Jane Austen's Lady Susan . See less