The Search for Sam Goldwyn

Carol Evelyn Easton was an American biographer. She was born in San Francisco and raised in Hollywood. She studied theater arts at the University of California, Los Angeles and worked as a freelance writer for years before deciding to write a biography. Her books focused on creative people in the arts. The first biography was Straight Ahead: The Story of Stan Kenton (1973), followed by The Search for Sam Goldwyn (1976), Jacqueline du Pre: A Biography (1989), and No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de Mille (1996), which was named a New York Times Notable Book (1996). Carol Easton died at her home in Venice, California on June 17, 2021. She was 87.

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