James Spada Biography

As a 13-year-old kid in Staten Island James Spada started the first Marilyn Monroe Memorial Fan Club. He produced four bulletins and one yearbook a year for four years when he had to disband the club due to lack of money.In college he founded EMK: The Edward M. Kennedy Quarterly and worked as an intern in Senator Kennedy’s Boston office in 1970. At 23 his first book Barbra: The First Decade--The Films and Career of Barbra Streisand was published. He followed that up with the authorized book The Films of Robert Redford. He went on to write illustrated coffee-table books about Streisand Marilyn Monroe Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli Katharine Hepburn Bette Midler Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda. In 1987 his first non-pictorial biography Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess became a major international bestseller. He followed that up with intimate biographies of Peter Lawford Bette Davis Barbra Streisand and Julia Roberts. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair People Ladies Home Journal Cosmopolitan The New York Times Book Review McCall’s the Los Angeles Times the London Sunday Express and many other publications.

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