Frank by James Kaplan

Frank by James Kaplan

Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twentieth century--infinitely charismatic, lionized and notorious in equal measure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remained an enigma.  Now James Kaplan brings deeper insight than ever before to the complex psyche and turbulent life behind that incomparable voice, from Sinatra's humble beginning in Hoboken to his fall from grace and Oscar-winning return in From Here to Eternity. Here at last is the biographer who makes the reader feel what it was really like to be Frank Sinatra--as man, as musician, as tortured genius.

For more than three decades, James Kaplan has been writing about people and ideas in business and popular culture, as well as famous fiction (The Best American Short Stories). Several magazines have published his pieces and reviews, as well as more than a hundred big profiles, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire, and New York. Pearl's Progress and Two Men from Verona, a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, are two of his works. The Airport, You Cannot Be Serious (coauthored with John McEnroe), Dean & Me: A Love Story (coauthored with Jerry Lewis), and Frank: The Voice, the first volume in his definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, are among his nonfiction works. With his wife and three sons, he resides in Westchester, New York.