num_pages: 256
description: Filled with profiles of fascinating Americans, this selection of biographical essays by the New Yorker writer features produce farmer Tom Chino, illusionist Ricky Jay, director Martin Scorcese, chefs Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, and many others. Reprint.
language: English
title: Character Studies: Encounters With the Curiously Obsessed
titlecomplete: Character Studies: Encounters With the Curiously Obsessed
genres: Nonfiction, Essays
ratings_count: 54
publisher: Mariner Books