Thomas Lisanti
Tom Lisanti is an award-winning author/film historian of seven books
about Sixties Hollywood. He began writing professionally in 1998 with
his first published article on actress Carol Lynley in Filmfax, a
magazine he had been reading since he was a teenager. Since then he has
interviewed many celebrities from the Sixties including Pamela Tiffin,
Shelley Fabares, Peter Brown, Diane McBain, Linda Harrison, Aron
Kincaid, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York, Irene Tsu, William Wellman,
Jr., Mimsy Farmer, and many more. His books include his latest Dueling
Harlows: Race to the Silver Screen; his first Fantasy Femmes of Sixties
Cinema; his biggest seller Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie
Starlets of the Sixties; and his favorite Hollywood Surf and Beach
Movies: The First Wave, 1959-1969 (Classic Images' Top 10 Film Books
2005); and he co-wrote with former actress Gail Gerber her memoir
Trippin' with Terry Southern: What I Think I Remember (IPPY Award
Silver Medal for Best Memoir of 2010).