The Good LIFE
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Once upon a time before the rude reality shocks of the 1960s, Patrick McGilligan grew up in downtown Madison on the shore of haunting Lake Mendota, in the long shadow of St. Raphael's Cathedral and the State Capitol. His busy boyhood intersected with everyone "famous in Wisconsin" and others more famous who were just passing through the small Midwestern city. His tender, humorous, engaging memoir of lost times ponders life's lessons and the self-mythologizing boast that Madison was, as LIFE Magazine proclaimed, "the best place in America to live."
Patrick McGilligan
Patrick McGilligan is the author of Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast; George Cukor: A Double Life; the life stories of the directors Nicholas Ray, Robert Altman, and Oscar Micheaux; and the biographies of the actors James Cagney, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood. He also edited the five-volume Backstory series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters and (with Paul Buhle) Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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