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The dramatic life of the incomparably beautiful and swashbuckling Ava Gardner--one of Hollywoods most beautiful actresses and lover of many men from bullfighters to Frank Sinatra--by The New York Times bestselling author of ROBERT MITCHUM Baby I Dont Care
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LEE SERVER is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care and Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing. Robert Mitchum was named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, "the film biography of the year" by the Sunday Times (U.K.) and one of the "60 Greatest Film Books" by Total Film Magazine. Ava Gardner is a New York Times Notable Book, and a NY Times, Los Angeles Times and USA Today Best-seller. "Diligently and widely researched," wrote Jonathan Cecil in the Times Literary Supplement, "Server's book is a gripping study of an elusive character, and a sizable contribution to the history of mid-twentieth century cinema." Server's other books include Sam Fuller: Film is a Battleground, Asian Pop Cinema: Bombay to Tokyo, and the pulp fiction histories, Danger is My Business and Over My Dead Body. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Interview Magazine, the New York Daily News, the Sunday Telegraph, Sight and Sound, and Film Comment among other publications.
