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Richard Zoglin

Biography

Richard Zoglin

Richard Zoglin is a contributing editor and theater critic for Time magazine. His book COMEDY AT THE EDGE: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America is considered the definitive history of that seminal era in stand-up comedy. Zoglin is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, and currently lives in New York City. His late wife, Charla Krupp, was the author of the bestselling books HOW NOT TO LOOK OLD and HOW TO NEVER LOOK FAT AGAIN.

Richard Zoglin

Books by Richard Zoglin

by Richard Zoglin - Biography, Entertainment, Nonfiction

Bob Hope is a household name. However, as Richard Zoglin shows in this revelatory biography, there is still much to be learned about this most public of figures --- from his secret first marriage and his stint in reform school, to his indiscriminate womanizing and his ambivalent relationship with Bing Crosby and Johnny Carson. Hope could be cold, self-centered, tight with a buck, and perhaps the least introspective man in Hollywood. But he was also a dogged worker, gracious with fans and generous with friends.