Frank: The Making of a Legend

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Who was Frank Sinatra and how did who he was lead to him creating such incomparable music? In FRANK, fans finally have a biography that goes more deeply into who he really was than any previous book about this extraordinary man.

James Kaplan is a novelist and nonfiction writer whose essays, reviews and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Esquire and New York. He co-authored John McEnroe's autobiography, Serious, a number-one New York Times bestseller and co-authored the bestselling Dean and Me with Jerry Lewis. He lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife and three sons.

Kaplan writes with an addictive wiliness, vigour and feeling that suit his subject...to a tee - Daily Telegraph Authoritative and enjoyable...important too - Sunday Times A wealth of entertaining detail about the singer's career, gnawing personal insecurity, lavish sexual indulgence, and obsessive musical virtuosity - Observer Evokes a sense of period with crackling energy - Daily Express Very few writers can write coherently about what makes music work. Fewer still can tell what makes it profound. Kaplan can - The Age At last, Sinatra has the biography he deserves - The Irish Times