Beverly Gray

Beverly Gray, who once developed 170 low-budget features for B-movie maven Roger Corman, is the author of the best-selling Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography of the Godfather of Indie Filmmaking. Tastefully retitled Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers, it is now available in an updated and unexpurgated 3rd edition. Beverly has also published Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon . . . and Beyond, and (to commemorate the film’s 50th anniversary) Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation. As a journalist she has covered the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times , the New York Times, and the Hollywood Reporter, while also serving as education editor of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. She also leads popular screenwriting workshops for UCLA Extension’s internationally acclaimed Writers’ Program. For the past decade she has blogged twice weekly at Beverly in Movieland (www.beverlyinmovieland.com), exploring movies, moviemaking, and growing up Hollywood-adjacent.