John Billheimer Books in Order
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work, established in 1977, is a literary award presented as part of the Edgar Awards for a nonfiction critical or biographical hardcover, paperback, or electronic book.
Bibliography verified: January 2026
Book Series by John Billheimer
- #1AmazonBaseball and the Blame Game: Scapegoating in the Major Leagues(2007)
- #1AmazonHawks on Hawks (By: Joseph McBride)(1982)
- #2AmazonIntrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies (By: Andrew Dickos)(1985)
- #3AmazonClaude Rains: An Actor's Voice (By: David Skal,Jessica Rains)(2008)
- #4AmazonBeing Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel (By: Nick Dawson)(2009)
- #5AmazonSome Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder (By: Gene D. Phillips)(2010)
- #6AmazonHedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film (By: Ruth Barton)(2010)
- #7AmazonBuzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley (By: )(2010)
- #8AmazonJack Nicholson: The Early Years (By: Robert David Crane)(2012)
- #9AmazonCarl Theodor Dreyer and Ordet (By: Jan Wahl)(2012)
- #10AmazonMy Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider's Journey Through Hollywood (By: Robert David Crane,Tom Mankiewicz)(2012)
- #11AmazonMae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips (By: Michael G. Ankerich)(2012)
- #12AmazonJohn Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars (By: Eve Golden)(2013)
- #13AmazonAnn Dvorak: Hollywood's Forgotten Rebel (By: Christina Rice)(2013)
- #14AmazonVictor Fleming: An American Movie Master (By: Michael Sragow)(2013)
- #15AmazonHitchcock's Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett (By: Charles Henry Bennett,John Charles Bennett)(2014)
- #16AmazonBruce Dern: A Memoir (By: Robert David Crane,Bruce Dern,Christopher Fryer)(2014)
- #17AmazonCharles Walters: The Director Who Made Hollywood Dance (By: BrentPhillips)(2014)
- #18AmazonDalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (By: Larry Ceplair,Christopher Trumbo)(2015)
- #19AmazonHitchcock Lost & Found: The Forgotten Films (By: Philip French,Charles Barr,Alain Kerzoncuf)(2015)
- #20AmazonCrane: Sex, Celebrity, and My Father's Unsolved Murder (By: Robert David Crane)(2015)
- #21AmazonHollywood Presents Jules Verne: The Father of Science Fiction on Screen (By: )(2015)
- #22AmazonStuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story (By: Mollie Gregory)(2015)
- #23AmazonHollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist (By: Kevin Brianton)(2016)
- #24AmazonRidley Scott: A Biography (By: Vincent Lobrutto)(2019)
- #25AmazonOlivia de Havilland: Lady Triumphant (By: Victoria Amador)(2019)
- #26AmazonHitchcock and the Censors(2019)
- #27AmazonConversations with Legendary Television Stars: Interviews from the First Fifty Years (By: Ron Miller)(2019)
- #28AmazonFilm's First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos (By: Terry Chester Shulman)(2019)
- #29AmazonLewis Milestone: Life and Films (By: Harlow Robinson)(2019)
- #30AmazonMean...Moody...Magnificent! (By: Christina Rice)(2021)
- #31AmazonJayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It (By: Eve Golden)(2021)
- #32AmazonStrictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez (By: Eve Golden)(2023)
- #33AmazonThe Herridge Style: The Life and Work of a Television Revolutionary (By: Robert Herridge,John Sorensen)(2025)
- #34AmazonJune Mathis: The Rise and Fall of a Silent Film Visionary (By: Thomas J. Slater)(2025)
About John Billheimer
The Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Critical/Biographical Work, established in 1977, is a literary award presented as part of the Edgar Awards for a nonfiction critical or biographical hardcover, paperback, or electronic book.
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