Ann M. Sperber

The Ann M. Sperber Prize is an annual award given by Fordham University that recognizes outstanding biographies of journalists.

[1] Manfred Sperber was trained in law, and he worked as an auditor for the DeFaKa group of department stores until the Jewish Boycott.

"If an author's effort could produce a good biography, Murrow would be a masterpiece," wrote Walter Goodman in The New York Times.

"A. M. Sperber seems to have read everything by and about the widely admired radio-television journalist Edward R. Murrow, who died in 1965, and to have talked with everybody who knew him.

[5] Sperber spent several years researching the life of Humphrey Bogart, conducting 150 interviews and examining the Warner Bros. archives at the University of Southern California.

[6] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, film critic David Thomson said that Sperber and Lax "have written a book that sets standards for research and evidence in the life of an actor.