Description As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, "queen of the B-pluses." But on the small screen she was a superstar-arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV.
He lives in New York and Cape Cod..
A Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and recipient of numerous writing awards, Kanfer is currently in the Distinguished Writer program at Southampton College, Long Island University.
He was a writer and editor at Time for more than twenty years.
About the author Stefan Kanfer\'s books include The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, Serious Business, and Groucho. and laugh-out-loud funny, this is the book Lucy\'s fans have been waiting for.
Charming, informative, touching.
Here, too, is an intimate view of the dawn of television and of the America that embraced it.
Here is the beauty who became a master of knock-down slapstick; the control freak whose Comic alter ego thrived on chaos, the worshipful TV housewife whose real marriage ended in public disaster.
Ball of Fire gives us Lucy in all her contradictions.
In this exemplary biography, Stefan Kanfer explores the roots of Lucy\'s genius and places it in the context of her conflicted and sometimes bitter personal life.
Description As a movie actress Lucille Ball was, in her own words, "queen of the B-pluses." But on the small screen she was a superstar-arguably the funniest and most enduring in the history of TV
