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Edward Ball is the author of four works of nonfiction, including the best-selling, National Book Award-winning Slaves in the Family. Born and raised in the South, he attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before coming to New York and working as an art critic for the Village Voice. He lives in Connecticut and teaches writing at Yale University.
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The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: eBook, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
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A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: eBook, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $14.99
Read more >
The Inventor and the Tycoon
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $29.95
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures... Read more >
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures
Written by Edward Ball
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $29.95
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures... Read more >
