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Full Name: Rob Edelman
Biography:
Rob Edelman, a native of Brooklyn, is a film journalist, critic, historian, and lecturer. Since 1981, he has been a contributing editor of Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide, and has worked on Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia and Family Film Guide. He teaches film history at the University at Albany (SUNY) and offers film commentary on WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio. He lectures on World War II-era Hollywood films, women on-screen during and after World War II, the Hollywood blacklist, and baseball on-screen in the Speakers in the Humanities Program, New York Council for the Humanities; and presented programs at such venues as the Brooklyn Museum, Walter Reade Theater (Film Society of Lincoln Center), National Baseball Hall of Fame, and Lucy-Desi Museum (Jamestown, New York). He has written essays and entries in anthologies and reference works (from A Political Companion to American Film and St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia to Total Baseball and The Total Baseball Catalog), and his work has appeared in dozens of periodicals (from American Film to Variety and the Washington Post). His books include GREAT BASEBALL FILMS and BASEBALL ON THE WEB, which amazon.com cited as one of the Top Ten Internet books of 1998. With his wife, Audrey Kupferberg, he is the author of ANGELA LANSBURY: A LIFE ON STAGE AND SCREEN (Birch Lane) and MEET THE MERTZES (Renaissance), a dual biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley. TITLE OF BOOK: MATTHAU: A LIFE (co-authored with Audrey Kupferberg), a biography of Walter Matthau, the motion picture/Broadway/television actor. ISBN 0-87833-274-X PUBLISHER: Taylor Trade Publishing, 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, Maryland 20706. The book may be ordered from Taylor, amazon.com, or National Book Network. (The author can supply copies of his other books.)
Circuit Writer Information:
Category: N.Y.S.
Travel Range: Anywhere in NY
Transportation: public and/or car
Dates Available: writer is available anytime
Fees: negotiable, but absolute minimum fee is $100-$150 plus travel, lodging, and meals
Contact Information: NY
Email: akupferb@nycap.rr.com
Author's Timeline:
1994 (Unknown) County
"Great Baseball Films: From Right Off the Bat to a League of Their Own"
 
1998 (Unknown) County
"Baseball on the Web"
"Baseball on the Web" was cited as one of the Top Ten Internet books of 1998 by amazon.com. 
1999 (Unknown) County
"Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen"
This biography was co-authored by Edelman's wife, Audrey Kupferberg. 
1999 (Unknown) County
"Meet the Mertzes"
Also co-written with his wife, Audrey Kupferberg, "Meet the Mertzes" is a dual biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley. 
2002 (Unknown) County
"Matthau: A Life"
(Pub: Taylor Trade Publishing ISBN: )
A co-written biography on Walter Matthau. 

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