Though a childhood accident left him with impaired vision in one eye, Lawrence Schiller became an obsessive photographer. Even while attending Pepperdine College, his photographs appeared in Life, Sport, Playboy, Glamour, and The Saturday Evening Post. His early passion soon evolved into a full-time career in photojournalism, documenting major stories for leading publications around the world, including Life, Look, Newsweek, Time, Paris Match, Stern, and The London Sunday Times. Schiller’s iconic portraits of Robert F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, and Madame Nhu, among many others, testify to his persistence, ingenuity, and technical mastery — as well as his disarming charm. In November 1963, while on assignment for The Saturday Evening Post, Schiller arrived in Dallas in time to photograph Lee Harvey Oswald and later secured Jack Ruby’s final interview. Following extensive interviews with the widow of Lenny Bruce in 1968, Schiller and writer Albert Goldman published Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce (1974). In collaboration with photographer W. Eugene Smith, he produced Minamata (1975), a powerful pictorial chronicle of mercury poisoning in Japan. Schiller expanded into motion pictures, directing sequences for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and Lady Sings the Blues (1972) with Diana Ross. In 1971, he produced and co-directed the acclaimed documentary The American Dreamer on Dennis Hopper. His editorial direction of The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972) earned an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. In 1986, after obtaining extraordinary cooperation from the Kremlin, he executive produced and co-directed Peter the Great, the Emmy Award-winning television miniseries starring Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, and Laurence Olivier. Perhaps nothing in Schiller’s career proved more significant than his long collaboration with Norman Mailer — a partnership unique in American literary history. Over nearly thirty-five years, the two worked closely on books including Marilyn (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), The Executioner’s Song (1979), Oswald’s Tale (1995), and Into the Mirror (2002). For The Executioner’s Song, which won Mailer the Pulitzer Prize, Schiller conceived the project, conducted much of the research and interviews, and outmaneuvered rival journalists to gain exclusive access to Gary Gilmore. He later produced and directed the Emmy-winning television miniseries adaptation starring Tommy Lee Jones.