Additional Info

Specialty Subjects : Hollywood, pop culture, low-budget filmmaking, Jewish culture, musical theatre, television

Book Credits : Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography of the Godfather of Indie Filmmaking (Renaissance Books, 2000) Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon . . . and Beyond (Rutledge Hill Press, 2003) Roger Corman,: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2004) Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers . 3 rd edition (AZ Ferris, 2013) Seduced by Mrs . Robinson : How 'The Graduate' Became the Touchstone of a Generation (Algonquin Books, 2017)

Enter your professional bio here : Beverly Gray, who once developed 170 low-budget features for B-movie maven Roger Corman, is the author of the best-selling Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography of the Godfather of Indie Filmmaking. Tastefully retitled Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers, it is now available in an updated and unexpurgated 3rd edition. Beverly has also published Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon . . . and Beyond, and (to commemorate the film's 50th anniversary) Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation. As a journalist she has covered the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times , the New York Times, and the Hollywood Reporter, while also serving as education editor of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. She also leads popular screenwriting workshops for UCLA Extension's internationally acclaimed Writers' Program. For the past decade she has blogged twice weekly at Beverly in Movieland (www.beverlyinmovieland.com), exploring movies, moviemaking, and growing up Hollywood-adjacent. http://www.beverlyinmovieland.com

Writing Credits : Why 'The Graduate' is a Vietnam Movie,'' New York Times op-ed, December 21, 2017
''I Was There: When Apollo Went to Japan,'' Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine, April/May 2020
''How the Author of The Graduate Walked Away from Middle Class Mores,'' Literary Hub, July 2, 2020
''How a Daring Designer Left a Mark on Fashion with a Topless Bikini,'' Washington Post Magazine, April 5, 2022

Awards and Recognition : 2014 eLit Book Award (gold) for popular culture 2010 Gold Aurora award for ''My Friend's Place'' PSA

Skills (Select all that apply) : Blog posts, Books, E-books, Essays, Profiles, Scriptwriting

List any memberships you have with other organizations : PEN International, Women in Film, Biographers International Organization