Lawrence Schiller

LAWRENCE SCHILLER (New York, 1936).
"Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22", 1963.
Photograph.
Gelatin silver.
With stamp on the back.
Size: 41 x 50.5 cm.
Photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Dallas Police Department after the Kennedy assassination.
Photojournalist Lawrence Schiller was born in Brooklyn to Jewish parents and grew up outside San Diego, California. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern and The Saturday Evening Post as a freelance photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then, Schiller has published 17 books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. After producing and directing the 1967 Capitol Records audio documentary album Why Did Lenny Bruce Die?, he collaborated with Albert Goldman on the 1974 bestseller Ladies and Gentleman--Lenny Bruce!!!, and also with Norman Mailer on the 1980 New York Times bestseller and television film The Executioner's Song, as well as 1995's Oswald's Tale. His own books, which became national bestsellers and reached the New York Times bestseller list, include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House and Into the Mirror.