From one of our most acclaimed biographers comes a fresh and definitive portrait of the most creative (and least understood) figure in film history In a career that spanned six decades and 60 films. Alfred Hitchcock was the dominant figure in the first century of cinema. His films--including Rear Window, Vertigo, Notorious, and Psycho--set new standards for invention and storytelling elan. Yet since his death, the public image of Hitchcock has crystallized into a series of iconic images: the macabre Englishman, the sexual obsessive, the Master of Suspense. This remarkable new biography--the first in a quarter-century--restores Hitchcock the man, in all his three-dimensional glory. Here is the comprehensive film craftsman and the private man: dedicated romantic, constant trickster, impotent voyeur, devoted husband, a man who sacrificed his life, again and again, for his work.