Synopsis
Original Story By Arthur Laurents - A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood

Published by Knopf
Here is the original story of a true original, the celebrated and internationally renowned director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, whose creative genius continues to energize American stage and screen today
Say his name, and images of West Side Story, Gypsy, Anastasia, The Turning Point, and The Way We Were appear
Laurents' highly praised memoir is a dazzling portrait of his life
He recounts the great moments, the trials and the joys of his incredible career
He takes us into his world, peopled with the creative artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after WWII
Later, back in New York, he writes about jump-starting Barbra Streisand's career by casting her in I Can Get It for You Wholesale
He writes about the creation of Gypsy with Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim
And he writes about coming together in a complex, fraught collaboration with his three old pals, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Sondheim for West Side Story
Throughout, Laurents is funny, fierce, and frank - a life recounted as richly as it was lived