BOOKS ON PRESTON STURGES

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Below is a list of books by, on, or about Preston Sturges. To clarify, this is not a bibliography to identify the totality of references to him in every book on film ever written, just those in which his work or his life is central. 

1. "Preston Sturges: An American Dreamer." by James Ursini. New York: Curtis Books, 1973

2. "Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges." by James Curtis. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1982

3. "Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges." edited by Brian Henderson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985

4. "Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies." by Andrew Dickos. Metuchen, N.J. and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1985

5. "Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges." by James Harvey. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987

6. "Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges." by Donald Spoto. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1990

7. "Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges." adapted and edited by Sandy Sturges. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990

8. "Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges." adapted and edited by Sandy Sturges. London: Faber and Faber, 1990

9. "Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges." by Diane Jacobs. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 

10. "Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges." edited by Brian Henderson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995

11. "Preston Sturges's Vision of America: Critical Analyses of Fourteen Films" by Jay Rozgonyi. McFarland & Company, 1995

12. "Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the finest writing from a century of film." New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1997

13. "Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges." edited by Andrew Horton. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998

14. "Coleccion Lo Esencial De Preston Sturges" by Angel Comas. Madrid: T&B Editores, 2003

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15. "Preston Sturges. Un humorista americano" (Spanish and English Edition) by James Ursini. Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales, 2003.

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15. "The Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study” by Alessandro Pirolini. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2010.

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16. "Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies” by Andrew Dickos. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

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17. "Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director” by Tom Sturges and N. Smedley. Intellect, University of Chicago, 2019.