Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton
Praised by the New York Times Book Review as "probably the most intelligent and insightful writer on the theater today,"John Lahrhas twice won the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, most recently for his work at The New Yorker, where he writes about theater and popular culture. Mr. Lahr has written sixteen books, among them the novelsThe Autograph Hound(1973) andHot to Trot(1974), and the nonfictionNotes on a Cowardly Lion: The Biography of Bert Lahr(California, 2000),Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilisation(California, 2000),Light Fantastic: Adventures in Theater(1996), andThe Orton Diaries(editor, 1986).