Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith - John Szwed Motohiro Hayakawa in response to theatrical censorship

in response to theatrical censorship rules that put him on the political “black list” in Mexico City and caused his plays and his pantomime classes at the School of Fine Arts to be cancelled

sisters and brother

The Night of the Hunter was shortlisted for the 1955 National Book Award and in the same year was made into a legendary film starring Robert Mitchum as Preacher

and that's why I wrote this book

enchanting and surpassingly strange

Cosmic Scholar - The Life and Times of Harry Smith - John Szwed Motohiro Hayakawa in response to theatrical censorshipCosmic Scholar The Life and Times of Harry Smith, by John Szwed ISBN 9780374282240 404 page harback published in 2023 by FSG *** The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smiths personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task. Dwight Garner, The New York Times Grammy Awardwinning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed