Description: For nearly a quarter of a century, Francis Ford Coppola has been a powerful presence in the international film community, a larger-than-life figure who has managed to pursue a grand-scale artistic vision that constantly confronts the conventional wisdom of the motion picture industry. He is Hollywood's perennial outsider, admired for his courage and individualism, respected for his artistry, and loved for his generosity, yet at the same time he is criticized for being too much the gambler, too willing to risk his livelihood in a business where success is measured by gate receipts, not the realization of dreams. His hyperbolic and contradictory nature has earned him as big a name as his films. Coppola's triumphs and disasters are legendary and he is one of Hollywood's great survivors.

Michael Schumacher has written the definitive biography of one of the great American directors. Coppola's life reads like an epic novel, complete with a cast of characters that looks like a Who's-Who of the film community, with dramatic events which unfold not unlike any of the director's great movies. The bio will included a complete filmography of Coppola's work.

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