Description: The first full-scale biography of the "Prince of Broadway", the playwright/director who exemplified wit, urbanity, and grace, and who rose from poverty to unparalleled success, tormented all the while by private demons.

Moss Hart knew -- and delighted -- everybody, from the Algonquin Round Table crowd to the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, and the Hollywood moguls. His passion for the theater gave wings to his long collaboration with George S. Kaufman (You Can't Take It With You, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and other glorious comedies); to his own plays (Lady in the Dark and Light Up the Sky); and to his screenplays (Gentleman's Agreement and A Star Is Born, among them). His career was crowned by his direction of My Fair Lady and Camelot shortly before his death in 1961 at the age of 57.

But Hart's life was not always golden, in spite of a Pulitzer Prize, Tony awards, and Oscar nominations. His battles with manic depression and with issues of sexuality -- documented here for the first time -- make his achievements seem almost heroic. His famous autobiography, Act One, ends at what was only the beginning, when he was 25. Now we have the whole story -- the seen and unseen struggles, the triumphs, the lasting magic of his work.

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