William Esper Book List
Making Movies ...................................................................Sidney Lumet
The Fervent Years ..............................................................Harold Clurman
The Dramatic Imagination..................................................Robert Edmund Jones
Letters to a Young Poet.......................................................Maria Rainer Rilke
Zen and the Art of Archery..................................................Eugene Herrigel
Actors on Acting..................................................................Toby Cole & Helen Kritch Chinoy
On Actors and the Art of Acting..........................................George Henry Lewes
It Would Be So Nice if You Weren't Here...........................Charles Grodin
An Actor's Life: Ralph Richardson.....................................Garry O'Connor
Slings and Arrows...............................................................Robert Lewis
Stanislavski - A Life.............................................................David Margashack
Martha................................................................................Agnes DeMille
Laurette...............................................................................Margarite Courtney
Duse - The Mystic in the Theater........................................Eva LeGallienne
Bernard Shaw (one volume edition)....................................Michael Holroyd
Real Life Drama (History of the Group Theater)...............Wendy Smith
Sanford Meisner On Acting.................................................Sanford Meisner & Dennis Longwell
Montgomery Clift: A Biography..........................................Patricia Bosworth
Hamlet's Dresser.................................................................Robert Smith
Stanislavsky's Legacy..........................................................Edited by Sonia Moore
Sean Penn: His Life and Times...........................................Richard T. Kelly
Being an Actor.....................................................................Simon Callow
Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley.......................John Krampner
The Empty Space..................................................................Peter Brook
Towards a Poor Theatre......................................................Jerzy Grotowski
Memoirs...............................................................................Tennessee Williams
Lessons in Becoming Myself................................................Ellen Burstyn