Sam Toperoff is a documentary film writer for a New York public television station and a regular contributor to Sports Illustrated. Jimmy Dean Prepares (Granta Books) is the second in a trilogy of imagined biographies of prominent figures of the 1950s. The first was Queen of Desire: Marilyn Monroe – A Fiction, and the next, Fidel Quixote, about Castro.
‘It was not a graceful matter, making public your desire to have more money.’
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