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[[Image:BPsigning.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Barry Paris signing books at The [[Booksmith]] in San Francisco]]
'''Barry Paris''' (born February 6, 1948) is an author and journalist based in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]].
Paris' best-known works include biographies of film stars [[Louise Brooks]], [[Greta Garbo]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]]. He is a [[Film criticism|movie reviewer]] for the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', and co-hosted a weekly radio show on [[WQED-FM]]. Paris has won awards for cultural and investigative reporting. He is currently engaged in writing a biography of [[Franklin Pierce]] (tentatively titled ''Pierce in Oblivion''), the 14th President of the United States.
==Biographic works==
''Louise Brooks'' (Knopf, 1989) is Paris's biography of the [[silent film]] star. ''Louise Brooks'' was named Film Book of the Year by [[Leonard Maltin]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=University of Minnesota Press|title=Louise Brooks: A Biography|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/louise-brooks|accessdate=9 December 2016}}</ref> In reviewing the book, the ''[[Daily Express]]'' stated "Barry Paris has written the model of a movie biography".<ref>{{cite web|last1=University of Minnesota Press|title=Louise Brooks: A Biography|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/louise-brooks|accessdate=9 December 2016}}</ref> Similarly, the ''[[Irish Times]]'' added, "In a short review it is impossible to give even a taste of the splendor of Mr Paris's work. It is one of the best biographies I have ever read, erudite, literate and always in search of its subject."<ref>{{cite web|last1=University of Minnesota Press|title=Louise Brooks: A Biography|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/louise-brooks|accessdate=9 December 2016}}</ref> The book was published in Europe and South America and remains in print in the United States. Along with this biography, Paris has written articles on the actress and scripted the Emmy-nominated documentary ''Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu'' (1998).
Paris authored ''[[Tony Curtis]]: The Autobiography'' (William Heinemann, 1993); ''[[Greta Garbo|Garbo]]'' (Knopf, 1995); ''[[Audrey Hepburn]]'' (Putnam, 1996), a biography of the iconic actress which was published in eight countries and ''Song of Haiti'' (Public Affairs, 2000), the story of [[Larry Mellon|Dr Larry]] and Gwen Mellon and their [[Hôpital Albert Schweitzer Haiti|hospital]] at [[Deschapelles]], Haiti.
Paris contributed ''15 Minutes, But Who's Counting? [[Andy Warhol]] and His Icons'' to ''The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion'' (Bulfinch Press, 1997); and edited and wrote the preface to ''Stella Adler on [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]], [[August Strindberg|Strindberg]], and [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]]'' (Knopf, 1999), a collection of talks by the legendary drama teacher. A second, Paris-edited, collection of [[Stella Adler]]'s talks is in preparation.
As well as the above-mentioned books, Paris published profiles of the novelist and Mozart biographer [[Marcia Davenport]] and the early film star [[Lina Basquette]] in ''[[The New Yorker]]''. Other publications to which he has contributed articles, reviews and interviews include ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'', ''[[Opera News]]'', ''American Film'', [[Art and Antiques Magazine|Art and Antiques]] and (The Washington Post).
Paris is a 1969 graduate of [[Columbia University]] (where he studied film and [[Slavic languages]]) and of the Institute for the Study of the [[USSR]] in Munich, where he wrote ''[[Cinema of the Soviet Union|Russian Cinema]] and the Soviet Film Industry,'' an early survey of the subject. Paris is fluent in Russian, [[Czech language|Czech]], [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], and Spanish, and has translated plays by [[Anton Chekhov]].
Paris was the editor-publisher of the ''Prairie Journal'' of [[Wichita, Kansas]] from 1972–1974; feature editor of ''[[The Miami Herald]]'' from 1979–1980 and critic/reporter of the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' from 1980–1986. From 1981 to 2006 he co-hosted ''The Sunday Arts Magazine'' on radio station [[WQED-FM]]. The weekly program covered the Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania cultural and classical music scene. Among his journalistic awards are the National Sunday Magazine Editors' Best Feature (1993), Pennsylvania Press Association's Best Cultural Story (1982) and three Matrix Awards (1980, 1981, 1993).
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000917ParisBio9.asp Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bio]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20020406122654/http://www.geocities.com/louisebrookssociety/barryparis.html Louise Brooks Studies page]
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