Distinguished screenwriter ("Intruder in the Dust", "The Asphalt Jungle") & previous National Book Award Nominee ("Edward Weston" '74) Ben Maddow harvests half a century of poetic achievement in A False Autobiography reflecting the tumultuous experience of five decades as recorded in an ironically inimitable voice, succint & wise , encompassing losses both public & private & hailed by fellow poet Allen Ginsberg as "a pleasure to read.sparse, spare & sage.".