Good condition except a red dot About the author Brian Jay Jones Brian Jay Jones is the critically-acclaimed, bestselling biographer of some of the world’s most iconic creative geniuses. His most recent biography, Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of An American Imagination (Dutton, 2019), has been hailed as "a rich, anecdotal biography" (Kirkus, starred review), "sweeping in scope" (The New Yorker), and "nuanced, profoundly human, and painstakingly researched" (NPR). His 2016 biography of filmmaker George Lucas was the first comprehensive biography of the influential creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones in nearly two decades. George Lucas: A Life (Little, Brown, 2016) was praised as “definitive” (New York Times), “whiz-bang” (People), “must-read” (Parade) and deemed by Rolling Stone as “the one biography for casual and die-hard [Star Wars] fans alike.” Brian's second book, Jim Henson: The Biography (Ballantine, 2013) was a New York Times bestseller, and chosen as the Best Biography of 2013 by Goodreads, as well as one of the year's Top Ten books by CNN viewers. The first full-length biography of the iconic creator of the Muppets, Jim Henson: The Biography was celebrated as "illuminating" (The Atlantic), "insightful" (Parade), "masterful" (Kirkus) and "compulsively readable" (The AV Club). Praised by the Washington Post as a biographer of "slightly off-center American geniuses," Brian's biography of Washin