Charlotte Chandler

Lyn Erhard, better known under the pen name of Charlotte Chandler, is an American biographer and playwright.^[1][2] Chandler authored biographies of Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Mae West and Alfred Hitchcock.^[3][4]

A resident of New York City, Chandler is a member of the board of Film at Lincoln Center.^[5]

Selected works

• (1978). Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1978. ISBN 0-385-12444-9.
• (1984). The Ultimate Seduction. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1984. ISBN 0-385-18953-2.
• (1986). Confessions of a Nightingale, a one-person play that utilizes parts of her biography on Tennessee Williams's The Ultimate Seduction.
• (1995). I, Fellini. New York: Random House. 1995. ISBN 0-679-44032-1.
• (2002). Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2002. ISBN 0-7432-1709-8.
• (2005). It's Only A Movie: Alfred Hitchcock, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. 22 February 2005. ISBN 0-7432-4508-3.
• (2006) The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography: New York; Simon & Schuster.
• (2007). Ingrid: Ingrid Bergman, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. 20 February 2007. ISBN 978-0-7432-9421-8.
• (2008). Not the Girl Next Door: Joan Crawford, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4165-4751-8.
• (2011). Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4391-8835-4.