D.W. GRIFFITH: AN AMERICAN LIFE by Richard Schickel
Simon & Schuster; 672 pages; $24.95
A Kentucky farm boy, the son of a Confederate war hero, David Wark Griffith seemed more suited to be a child of 19th century lost causes than a pioneer of the art form of the future. But once the young actor walked into Biograph film studios on New York City's East 14th Street, the movies came to possess him as his romance of romances.
As he tracks Griffith's long parabola, Richard Schickel also provides an exhilarating, authoritative account of the early days...
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