![]() ![]() ![]() “Hughes’ story has been told before, of course, but never with the overview, insight and, most important, extraordinarily diligent research applied by Hack in this riveting biography. “Hughes kept coming back to me-kept jumping back into my life.”Įventually, Hack was fascinated enough to spend the better part of a decade (amid other projects) working on “Howard Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters,” which was recently published to rave reviews and debuts today on The Times’ nonfiction bestseller list at No. ![]() “I was fascinated by the people,” Hack says. Years later, Hack wound up ghostwriting the biography of Hughes’ longtime lieutenant, Robert Maheu. Hack first chanced upon Hughes in 1978, when he was a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter and jumped at an opportunity to interview Hughes’ lawyer, Noah Dietrich. In fact, Hack circled his subject for years before he started researching the life of the man who went from dashing Hollywood producer, man-about-town and test pilot to become the world’s first billionaire, who spent almost no money, saw almost no one and wanted to do little but watch bad movies and write pages of memos detailing to his staff the precise way to remove tissue paper from a Kleenex box. For the last decade, Richard Hack has published at least a book a year, sometimes more, but he insists that his new book on Howard Hughes is no quickie bio. ![]()
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