Four years older than Brando, eleven years senior to James Dean, but finding stardom only just ahead of both, Montgomery Clift is invariably bracketed with them—the leader of the great trio of the beautiful and doomed who emerged from the Actors...

Edward Montgomery Clift (October 17, 1920 - July 23, 1966) was an American Academy Award-nominated actor known by the stage name of Montgomery...

Letters to Montgomery Clift by Noel Alumit MacAdam / Cage Publishing. 240 pages, $25. THE United States is a country built upon the immigrant experience. Each story has its singular elements, yet common themes abound: mastering a new language, learning...

Montgomery Clift is the next movie legend to receive the bioplay treatment. Patricia Bosworth is adapting her 1978 bestseller, "Montgomery Clift," to the stage. Her collaborator on the project is director Larry Moss, who developed and helmed Pamela Gien's "The Syringa Tree." ...

The diary of Chester Gillette, whose murder of his lover in 1906 became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic "An American Tragedy," has been donated to Hamilton College after being passed down for generations through his family."He truly is a different person in the diary"...

Norman Mailer was a literary pugilist, attacking his subjects and opponents as writer, debater and cultural provocateur.A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, fighter, feuder, journalist and poet, Mailer was a key figure as postwar America passed through the era of civil rights, Vietnam and women's liberation.On Thursday,...