Noah Isenberg
"Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna," Noah Isenberg: Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of such iconic films like Sunset Boulevard and Some Like It Hot, he worked as a freelance reporter, first in Vienna and then in Weimar Berlin. Billy Wilder on Assignment brings together more than fifty articles, translated into English for the first time, that Wilder (then known as “Billie”) published in magazines and newspapers between September 1925 and November 1930. Noah Isenberg's books include the national bestseller We’ll Always Have ‘Casablanca’: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie; Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins; Detour, a book-length study of Ulmer’s acclaimed low-budget film noir; and, as editor, Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide to Classic Films of the Era.