Joseph McBride (writer)

Joseph Pierce McBride
Born	August 9, 1947 Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Education	Marquette University High School, University of Wisconsin
Occupation	writer, teacher
Employer	San Francisco State University
Home town	Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Partner(s)	Ann Weiser Cornell
Awards	Writers Guild of America Award
Website	josephmcbridefilm.com

Joseph McBride (born August 9, 1947) is an American film historian, biographer, screenwriter and professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University. He has written numerous books including biographies of notable film directors, a book on screenwriting, an investigative journalism book on the JFK assassination, and a memoir of the dark years in his life.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, McBride grew up in the suburb of Wauwatosa. He attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and worked as a reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal in Madison, before moving to California in 1973.

McBride has published 18 books since 1968, including biographies of film directors Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Orson Welles, and John Ford.

He has written three books on Orson Welles: Orson Welles (1972), Orson Welles: Actor and Director (1977), and What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). His two books on John Ford are John Ford (with Michael Wilmington, 1974) and Searching for John Ford (2001).

McBride's interview book with director Howard Hawks, Hawks on Hawks, was published in 1982. Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success was published in 1992. His Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, and published in translation in mainland China in 2012.

In 2012, McBride published a book on screenwriting: Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless.

In 2013 he published Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit, which was the result of McBride's 31-year investigation of the case.

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