Noted biographer and film historian Patrick McGilligan is the author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane; Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; George Cukor: A Biography of the Gentleman Director; and the life stories of Robert Altman, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Nicholas Ray, and Oscar Micheaux. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.