While shopping at a Hollywood bookstore, he filled out a photo purchase request form with the names of his movie star favorites, mentioning his partiality for 1930s celebrity, Kay Francis. In the 1960s, the future author was visiting Los Angeles on a semester break from college in Philadelphia. Parish got his start as a pop culture chronicler almost by accident.
Few writers have shown such industrious devotion to their subject matter and even fewer are still going strong after more than thirty years. James Robert Parish, the author of more than one hundred books about show business and Hollywood celebrities, took a coincidental and circuitous route to a prolific writing life that has included groundbreaking film reference works, revealing biographies of actors and actresses, and lively pop culture compendiums.
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