Nat Segaloff
Writer, Producer, Director
2018 Hugo Award nominee and 2018 Locus Award finalist
Nat Segaloff is a writer, broadcaster, teacher, film historian, and raconteur with a varied background in motion picture publicity, journalism, producing, and covering up other people's mistakes. Having begun his career during the exciting transition between the old studios and the film generation of the New Hollywood, he provides both perspective and commentary on a wide range of subjects, many of them having to do with movies. He also tries to return phone calls.
NEW RELEASES
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Hollywood and Venal is the collection of short Hollywood fiction, based on Hollywood fact, written especially for Nikki Finke's acclaimed website HollywoodDementia.com.
"Sometimes you have to lie a little to tell the truth," says author Nat Segaloff. "If you know what the lies are in Hollywood and Venal, you will find a lot of truth." |
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Arthur Penn: American Director. The second edition of the only biography of the man who fired the first shot in the Hollywood filmmaking revolution with "Bonnie and Clyde." This revised edition includes testimonials following Penn's death and the revelation of the identity of the mysterious woman who gave him his earliest education in the arts.
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2019
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Guarding Gable starts with an actual event in the life of the screen's number one star and becomes a story worthy of a Hollywood movie. |
Nominations
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A LIT FUSE: THE PROVOCATIVE LIFE OF HARLAN ELLISON
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Nat Segaloff
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Nat Segaloff
"Touching, honest and authentic...there will certainly never be another such groundbreaking and generously all-encompassing effort as the one that Segaloff has heartily assembled." - Paul Di Filippo - Locus Magazine
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Hardcover
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Nat Segaloff has known Harlan Ellison for 20 years and, for decades before meeting him, enjoyed reading his work. Their first close encounter was when he interviewed Ellison for his A&E Biography on Stan Lee. After that, Ellison appeared as an actor in The Waldorf Conference, a play Segaloff co-wrote about the origins of the Hollywood Blacklist.
Segaloff conducted exhaustive interviews with Ellison over the course of five years and also spoke with many of his friends and enemies in an effort to get inside the man and pin down the best-known “Harlan stories.” Their wide-ranging discussions cover his bullied boyhood, his storied marriages, his fabled lawsuits, and his compulsive writing process with more depth and detail than has ever before appeared in print. But it also delves deeply into the man’s deeply held principles, his fears, and the demons that have driven him all of his 82 (so far) years. Friends, colleagues, and admirers such as Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, Robert Silverberg, and many other notables add their voices.
Segaloff conducted exhaustive interviews with Ellison over the course of five years and also spoke with many of his friends and enemies in an effort to get inside the man and pin down the best-known “Harlan stories.” Their wide-ranging discussions cover his bullied boyhood, his storied marriages, his fabled lawsuits, and his compulsive writing process with more depth and detail than has ever before appeared in print. But it also delves deeply into the man’s deeply held principles, his fears, and the demons that have driven him all of his 82 (so far) years. Friends, colleagues, and admirers such as Neil Gaiman, Patton Oswalt, Peter David, Robert Sawyer, Michael Scott, Edward Asner, Leonard Nimoy, Ed Bryant, Alan Brennert, Robert Silverberg, and many other notables add their voices.
Hot off the Press
Screen Saver Too by Nat Segaloff
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If you enjoyed Screen Saver: Private Stories of Public Hollywood, a memoir by former movie press agent-turned-film critic/producer Nat Segaloff, he now unlocks the La La Land Laundromat to show the dirty laundry left behind. More celebrity stories, as well as richer anecdotes, reveal how the television, radio, and studio industries really work. Anybody thinking of going into the entertainment industry take caution. |
Segaloff's other books include biographies of directors Arthur Penn and William Friedkin, screenwriter Stirling Silliphant, and Final Cuts: The Last Films of 50 Great Directors. He was also a founding partner, with John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy, of the science fiction production company Alien Voices. He lives in Los Angeles ducking phone calls.
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"An unusual but most rewarding beach read." - Barnes&Noble
"Well-written and well-edited book about a master filmmaker." - Amazon "I recommend enjoying a martini while reading...be liberal with the vermouth." Amazon |
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"Loved this book. Interesting, insightful and also with a lot of (understated) humor." - Amazon
"Funny, smart and entertaining." - Amazon "Great fun, lots of trivia, interesting anecdotes - for anyone who loves movies." - Goodreads |
"A wonderful biography of a great screenwriter." - Amazon
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"Winningly readable and
meticulously researched." - Kobo |
The Everything Series
Over 4 million copies sold
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TV Writer/Producer
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Alien Voices
Along with John de Lancie and Leonard Nimoy, Nat co-founded the science fiction production company Alien Voices and produced several adaptations of sf classics featuring Star Trek® actors.
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