Max Alvarez is author and illustrator of The Cinéphile’s Guide to the Great Age of Cinema, and his essay on the Thornton Wilder Shadow of a Doubt screenplay appears in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives. He has also written for Film History: An International Journal and Chicago Tribune.
"The author’s access to rare and newly available sources pays dividends, and this study is an essential purchase for admirers of American genre cinema."" Crime Time"