Jacko, His Rise and Fall: The Social and Sexual History of Michael Jackson (121 page)

Porter's role as a historian of Hollywood celebrities is well-established, thanks to
widespread publicity generated by the other biographies he's written. Their subjects have included Paul Newman, Merv Griffin, Marlon Brando, Humphrey
Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hughes, and (coming soon) Steve
McQueen. Each has generated widespread reviews and animated radio and
blogsite commentaries worldwide. Some of Porter's biographies have been serialized to millions of readers in THE SUNDAY TIMES of London and THE
MAIL ON SUNDAY.

Porter is also the author of Hollywood Babylon-It's Back!, a prize-winning
anthology of celebrity indiscretion that was defined by some critics as "the hottest
compilation of inter-generational scandal in the history of Hollywood," and "The
Ultimate Guilty Pleasure."

Darwin is also the well-known author of many past and present editions of The
Frommer Guides, a respected travel guidebook series presently administered by
John Wiley and Sons Publishers.

When not traveling, which is rare, Darwin lives with a menagerie of once-abandoned pets in a Victorian house in one of the outer boroughs of New York City,
with frequent excursions to California and various Frommer-related parts of
Europe and the Caribbean.