Elia Kazan

“No mere page-turner, this is a page-devourer, generating the kind of suspense that is usually the province of the playwright or novelist.” — The New York Times Book Review Few figures in film and theater history tower like Elia Kazan. Born in 1909 to Greek parents in Istanbul, Turkey, he arrived in America with incomparable vision and drive, and by the 1950s he was the most important and influential director in the nation, simultaneously dominating both theater and film. His productions of