Donald Spoto

Donald Spoto was born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1941 and died at Køge in Denmark in February 2023. He had been a Catholic monk, and he took a doctorate at Fordham in 1970. Across twenty-nine books he wrote the lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, alongside books on theology and spirituality. Enchantment, from 2006, is his life of Audrey Hepburn. High Society, from 2009, is his life of Grace Kelly, and follows her from Philadelphia through Hollywood to Monaco. He spent his last years near Copenhagen with his husband, Ole Flemming Larsen.