Patrick McGilligan's biographies include the acclaimed Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only ; the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light ; Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast ; and George Cukor: A Double Life . The author of several New York Times Notable Books , he has also penned biographies of Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Robert Altman, and James Cagney, along with the oral history Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist (with Paul Buhle). McGilligan lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.