15 Facts About Gavin Lambert

Gavin Lambert was a British-born screenwriter, novelist and biographer who lived for part of his life in Hollywood.

Gavin Lambert's writing was mainly fiction and nonfiction about the film industry.

At about the same time Gavin Lambert was deeply involved in Britain's Free Cinema movement which called for more social realism in contemporary movies.

Gavin Lambert wrote film criticism for The Sunday Times and The Guardian.

Gavin Lambert spent the final years of his life in Los Angeles, where he died of pulmonary fibrosis on 17 July 2005.

Gavin Lambert left behind a brother, niece and nephew, and named Mart Crowley executor of his estate.

Gavin Lambert's papers are currently housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Gavin Lambert became a notable screenwriter of the Hollywood studio era.

Gavin Lambert was a biographer and novelist, who focused his efforts on biographies of gay and lesbian figures in Hollywood.

Gavin Lambert was the author of the memoir Mainly About Lindsay Anderson.

Gavin Lambert wrote the book GWTW: The Making of Gone with the Wind.

Gavin Lambert's final biography, Natalie Wood: A Life supplied an insider's look at actress Natalie Wood and chronicled everything concerning her life, since Lambert was a friend of Wood for sixteen years.

Gavin Lambert said that Wood supported homosexual playwright Mart Crowley in a manner that made it possible for him to write his play, The Boys in the Band.

Gavin Lambert wrote seven novels primarily with Hollywood settings, among them The Slide Area: Scenes of Hollywood Life, a collection of seven short stories that portray a bevy of tinsel-town lowlifes, Inside Daisy Clover, The Goodby People about Hollywood's beautiful people, and Running Time, a portrait of an indefatigable woman from child starlet to screen goddess, but a unique life history of the American film industry.

In 1996, Gavin Lambert wrote the introduction to 3 Plays, a collection of works by his longtime friend, Mart Crowley.