Background
Barry Paris was born on February 6, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Barry Paris was born on February 6, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Barry received a certificate at the Institute for the Study of the USSR in 1968. Then he became Bachelor of Arts at Columbia University in 1969 and had graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh in 1976 - 1978.
Louise Brooks is Paris's biography of the silent film star. The book was published in Europe and South America and remains in print in the United States. Along with this biography, Paris has written articles on the actress and scripted the Emmy-nominated documentary Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu.
Paris authored Tony Curtis: The Autobiography; Garbo; Audrey Hepburn, a biography of the iconic actress which was published in eight countries and Song of Haiti, the story of Dr Larry and Gwen Mellon and their hospital at Deschapelles, Haiti.
Paris contributed 15 Minutes, But Who's Counting? Andy Warhol and His Icons to The Warhol Look: Glamour, Style, Fashion; and edited and wrote the preface to Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov, a collection of talks by the legendary drama teacher. A second, Paris-edited, collection of Stella Adler's talks is in preparation.
As well as the above-mentioned books, Paris published profiles of the novelist and Mozart biographer Marcia Davenport and the early film star Lina Basquette in The New Yorker. Other publications to which he has contributed articles, reviews and interviews include Vanity Fair, Opera News, American Film, Art and Antiques and The Washington Post.
Paris was the editor-publisher of the Prairie Journal of Wichita, Kansas from 1972–1974; feature editor of The Miami Herald from 1979–1980 and critic/reporter of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1980–1986. Since 1981, he has co-hosted Sunday Arts Magazine on radio station WQED-FM. The weekly program covers the Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania cultural and classical music scene.