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Beverly Gray

Beverly Gray, who once developed 170 low-budget features for B-movie maven Roger Corman, is the author of Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers, now in an updated third edition. She has also published Ron Howard: From Mayberry to the Moon . . . and Beyond, and blogs twice weekly at www.BeverlyinMovieland.com. Her latest book, Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became the Touchstone of a Generation, will be published by Algonquin Books in November 2017.