Darwin Porter
Darwin Porter, born September 13, 1937, in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a distinguished American travel writer, celebrity biographer, and novelist with over 50 years in the field, best known for Frommer's guidebooks and controversial Hollywood biographies. A former journalist, he covered Cuban guerrilla training camps in 1960 and interviewed luminaries like Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Frost, Tennessee Williams, Harry S. Truman, and Lucille Ball. He earned a B.A. from the University of Miami in 1959 and received awards such as the Silver Award from the International Film and Television Festival of New York in 1977.
Greensboro, NC, USA
Sep 13, 1937
Travel
Biography
Fiction
Frommer's Scandinavia
Italy 2009
Frommer's Caribbean 2005
Frommer's Germany 2000 (Country Annual)
Frommer's Portable London 2005 (Frommer's Portable)
Frommer's Paris 2005 (Frommer's Complete Guides)
Frommer's Bermuda 2004 (Frommer's Complete Guides)
Frommer's Spain 2012 (Frommer's Color Complete)
Frommer's Portugal (Frommer's Complete Guides)
Those Glamorous Gabors: Bombshells from Budapest
Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!: More Exhibitions! More Sex! More Sin! More Scandals Unfit to Print
Merv Griffin: A Life in the Closet
Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entourages
Frommer's Portable Cayman Islands
Frommer's Bahamas 2011
Elizabeth Taylor: There is Nothing Like a Dame
Rock Hudson Erotic Fire (Blood Moon's Babylon Series)
Frommer's Portable Dominican Republic
Love Triangle: Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman & Nancy Davis - All the Gossip Unfit to Print
Damn You, Scarlett O'Hara: The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier
Steve McQueen, King of Cool: Tales of a Lurid Life
Frommer's Europe
Frommer's Germany 2011 (Frommer's Complete Guides)
Frommer's Italy 2012