Burt Kearns | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Fairfield University |
| Occupations |
|
Burt Kearns is an American author, journalist, and television and film producer, writer and director, whom Vanity Fair referred to as "a show business and pop culture savant."[1]
Kearns's book, Marlon Brando: Hollywood Rebel,[2][3] was published on April 2, 2024 by Applause Theatre & Cinema Books.[4] Applause published Kearns's book, Shemp! The Biography of the Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy, on October 1, 2024.[5]
His biography of actor Lawrence Tierney,[6] Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy, was published in December, 2022 by the University Press of Kentucky.[7][8] The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, which he wrote with Jeff Abraham, was published in 2019 by Chicago Review Press.[9][10]
Kearns's first book, the television memoir Tabloid Baby, was published in 1999.[11][12]
In 2018, he became a contributor to the literary pop culture website, PleaseKillMe.com.[13] In December 2021, he began to contribute written and video pieces to Legs McNeil’s literary pop culture website, Legsville.com.[14]