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Marshall Fine is an author, journalist, critic, historian, and filmmaker.

His first novel, "The Autumn of Ruth Winters," will be published by Lake Union Press in November 2024.

His second novel, "Clara鈥檚 Girl," was recently purchased by Lake Union Press, to be published in the fall of 2025.

Fine is the author of three biographies: "Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah" (1991); "Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness" (1998); and "Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film" (2006).

Fine started writing rock criticism for the Minneapolis Star at the age of 18, beginning a journalism career that covered a half-century. He spent 25 years as film critic and entertainment writer for Gannett Newspapers and an Marshall Fine is an author, journalist, critic, historian, and filmmaker.

His first novel, "The Autumn of Ruth Winters," will be published by Lake Union Press in November 2024.

His second novel, "Clara鈥檚 Girl," was recently purchased by Lake Union Press, to be published in the fall of 2025.

Fine is the author of three biographies: "Bloody Sam: The Life and Films of Sam Peckinpah" (1991); "Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness" (1998); and "Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film" (2006).

Fine started writing rock criticism for the Minneapolis Star at the age of 18, beginning a journalism career that covered a half-century. He spent 25 years as film critic and entertainment writer for Gannett Newspapers and another 10 as film/TV critic for Star magazine. He wrote the website Hollywood & Fine.com from 2008-16.

His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Daily News, USA Today, New York Observer, Variety, Premiere, Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated, Penthouse, Indiewire.com and Entertainment Weekly. He conducted the Playboy Interview with both Howard Stern and Tim Robbins, and wrote more than two dozen cover stories for Cigar Aficionado as contributing editor.

Fine is a four-time former chairman (1992, 2002, 2006, 2015) and member emeritus of the New York Film Critics Circle. He was named general manager of the NYFCC in 2016 and retired from the position in 2021. He received a special award from the group in 2022 for "service to the group and his many decades on the New York film scene."

After 20 years of programming and hosting subscription film clubs at four different venues in the New York area, he retired in May 2021 as critic-in-residence at The Picture House in Pelham, NY, where he created its sold-out film club. He received the Harold Lloyd Lifetime Achievement Award from The Picture House in 2021.

Fine spent the 2020-21 academic year as an adjunct journalism professor at Purchase College-SUNY.

He directed and produced the documentary features "Robert Klein Still Can鈥檛 Stop His Leg" and "Do You Sleep in the Nude?", and the short documentary, "Flo Fox鈥檚 Dicthology."

His photography show, 鈥淣atural & Unnatural,鈥� was exhibited in the Ossining Public Library Gallery in January 2023.
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“It made Ruth uncomfortably aware of the general fragility of existence, something she didn鈥檛 like to consider.”
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