Gerald Clarke (author)

Gerald Clarke (born June 21, 1937) is an American writer, best known for the biographies Capote (1988) (made into the Oscar-winning 2005 film Capote^[1]) and Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000).^[2]

Gerald Clarke
Born	(1937-06-21) June 21, 1937 (age 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	Yale University
Occupation	Author
Employer(s)	Time Architectural Digest Esquire
Known for	Capote (2005) Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (2000) Capote (1988)

He has also written for magazines including Esquire, Architectural Digest, and Time, where he was a senior writer for many years.

While an undergraduate at Yale, he wrote for campus humor magazine The Yale Record.^[3]

A native of Los Angeles, Clarke now lives in Bridgehampton, in eastern Long Island, New York.