Scott Allen Nollen
3000 Grand Avenue, Apt. 411
Des Moines, Iowa, United States Email: snollen63@hotmail.com Scott Allen Nollen is an Iowa native educated (BA, MA) at the University of Iowa in Film and Broadcasting & United States and European History. He is the author of fourteen books on the history of film, literature and music, including (from McFarland/www.mcfarlandpub.com): LOUIS ARMSTRONG: THE LIFE, MUSIC AND SCREEN CAREER (2004), JETHRO TULL: A HISTORY OF THE BAND (2002; foreword by Ian Anderson), THE BOYS: THE CINEMATIC WORLD OF LAUREL AND HARDY (2001/1989), ROBIN HOOD: A CINEMATIC HISTORY (1999), SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE AT THE CINEMA (2005/1996; foreword by Nicholas Meyer), ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: LIFE, LITERATURE AND THE SILVER SCREEN (1994) and BORIS KARLOFF: A CRITICAL ACCOUNT... (1991; foreword by Ray Bradbury); (from Luminary/Midnight Marquee Press/www.midmar.com): THE CINEMA OF SINATRA: THE ACTOR, ON SCREEN AND IN SONG (2003), BORIS KARLOFF: A GENTLEMAN'S LIFE (1999/revised edition forthcoming; foreword by Sara Jane Karloff), PETER CUSHING (2004; coauthor), PETER LORRE (2000; coauthor) and VINCENT PRICE (1998, coauthor); and (from Warner Bros./Rhino Records) the hardcover book accompanying the 6CD box set FRANK SINATRA IN HOLLYWOOD (2002; coauthor). He spent 10 years as Audiovisual Archivist with the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library/National Archives and currently is the Multimedia Archivist for August Home Publishing in Des Moines, Iowa. He also works as a freelance editor and has operated Classic Film Collections, his own mail-order movie memorabilia business, since 1982. He currently is writing the book, WARNER BROS. WISEGUYS: ROBINSON, CAGNEY AND BOGART, for McFarland; and developing another book, PAUL ROBESON: THE FILM CAREER. Other current projects include co-writing, producing, directing and acting in the independent feature film DILLY, to be filmed in Iowa in late summer/early autumn 2005. Interests: motion picture history; music/jazz history;
Victorian literature; African-American history; British Isles/Scottish history; World War I & World War II eras; classic Hollywood movie memorabilia
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