Before that, he had held several teaching positions, including in the theology department at Fairfield University in Connecticut and the department of religion at the College of New Rochelle in Westchester County, north of New York City. Spoto wrote more than two dozen books, being a biographer was a sort of second career for him. From a New York Times obit by Neil Genzlinger headlined “Donald Spoto, Biographer of Hitchcock and Many More, Dies at 81”:ĭonald Spoto, a prolific biographer whose subjects included Jesus and Joan of Arc, but who was best known for his books on Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and other high-profile entertainment figures, some of which made news with startling claims, died in Koege, Denmark.Īlthough Mr.
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