Donald Spoto
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DONALD SPOTO
Date of Birth: June 28, 1941
Birthplace: New Rochelle, NY
Current Residence: New York, NY
Education: Fordham University, Ph.D.
Profession: Professor of Humanities, New School for Social Research, 1975-present.
His reign was a triumph of illusion: the role had little substance, but he played it to perfection.
-Donald Spoto on Edward VII , The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor
His [Edward VIII] mental and spiritual growth stopped in his adolescence.
-Stanley Baldwin, Donald Spoto's The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor
[Spoto] is too shrewd to imagine...that an artist is the sum of his quirks. Hitchcock's brilliance was entangled with his personal grotesqueries, but it was real brilliance....His final obsession was secretiveness, but he has been well served by a knowledgeable and revealing biography.
-John Skow, Time, May 9, 1983
