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Stephen M. Silverman is the author of thirteen books, including The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them; The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America; and the critically acclaimed biographies of the filmmakers David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) and Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain), featuring introductions by Katharine Hepburn and Audrey Hepburn, respectively. His work has appeared in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Times of London, Smithsonian, Vogue, and The Washington Post. He is a twenty-year veteran of Time Inc., and for nine years taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. His first job was selling ice cream in Disneyland.