Peter Biskind

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1. Peter Biskind

   Author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, Gods and Monsters: Movers, Shakers, and Other Casualties of the Hollywood Machine

2. James Ellroy

   Author of American Tabloid, Clandestine, Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.

3. William Goldman

   Author of Adventures in the Screen Trade, Which Lie Did I Tell?; More Adventures in the Screen Trade

4. David Thomson

   Author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles

5. Robert Evans

   Author of The Kid Stays in the Picture

6. Don DeLillo

   Author of Underworld, Libra

7. Martin Amis

   Author of London Fields, Money

8. Hunter S. Thompson

   Author of Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

9. Kenneth Anger

   Author of Hollywood Babylon, Hollywood Babylon II

10. Julia Phillips

    Author of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

11. Sharon Waxman

    Author of Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System (P.S.)

12. Sidney Lumet

    Author of Making Movies

13. Francis Wheen

    Author of How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Karl Marx

14. Lester Bangs

    Author of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

15. François Truffaut

    Author of Hitchcock

16. David Simon

    Author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

17. Quentin Tarantino

    Author of Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

18. Glen David Gold

    Author of Carter Beats the Devil

19. Michael Herr

    Author of Dispatches

20. J. G. Ballard

    Author of Cocaine Nights