Lawrence Schiller

Lawrence Schiller (b. 1936) is an American photojournalist, film producer, director, and author. His work has been featured in prominent magazines throughout the world. Schiller also directed a number of award-winning motion pictures, notably The American Dreamer , with Dennis Hopper, and The Executioner's Song, with Tommy Lee Jones. Schiller provided additional direction for The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972), which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Schiller has produced many...See more

Lawrence Schiller (b. 1936) is an American photojournalist, film producer, director, and author. His work has been featured in prominent magazines throughout the world. Schiller also directed a number of award-winning motion pictures, notably The American Dreamer , with Dennis Hopper, and The Executioner's Song, with Tommy Lee Jones. Schiller provided additional direction for The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972), which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Schiller has produced many books, his most notable being with his friend and colleague Norman Mailer. Over several decades, the two published Marilyn (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), Oswald's Tale (1995), Into the Mirror (2002), and The Executioner's Song (1979), for which Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of the New York Times number-one best-selling American Tragedy , with James Willwerth (1996), Barbra , with Steve Schapiro (2016) and Marilyn & Me (2021). Schiller has consulted for NBC News, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Ray Bradbury estate, and the Annie Leibovitz Studio. After the death of Norman Mailer, Schiller was named the president and co- founder of the Norman Mailer Center and Writer's Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2023, Schiller's archives were transferred to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. He is married to Nina Wiener and resides in Los Angeles. See less