ROB EDELMAN teaches film history courses at the University at Albany (SUNY), is a longtime Contributing Editor of Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide, and offers film commentary on WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio; his work may be found on the WAMC web site.
He presents lectures in the Speakers in the Humanities program, sponsored by the New York State Council for the Humanities, and has coauthored (with his wife, Audrey Kupferberg) several books, including Matthau: A Life; Meet the Mertzes, a double biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley; and Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen. Other books include Great Baseball Films and Baseball on the Web (which Amazon.com cited as a Top 10 Internet book); and he is a frequent contributor to Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, edited by John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball. He is the editor of Issues on Trial: Freedom of the Press and a Contributing Editor of Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin’s Family Film Guide, and Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia. His byline has appeared in many reference books (including A Political Companion to American Film, International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Women Filmmakers and Their Films, Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond, and St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture) and dozens of periodicals.
