Susan Orlean
In conversation with Alexandra Horowitz, bestselling author of "Inside of a Dog", discusses her book "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend."
From the Montgomery Auditorium in Philadelphia, PA
Captured live December 5, 2011
available for screening beginning
Monday, January 30, 2012
Interview: 50 minutes
"[Orlean] combines all her skills and passions in this astonishing story ... A terrific dog's tale that will make readers sit up and beg for more."
- Kirkus Reviews
"This book is for anyone who has ever had a dog or loved a dog or watched a dog on television or thought their dog could be a movie star. In short - everyone."
- Ann Patchett, author of
"State of Wonder" and "Bel Canto"
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A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, Susan Orlean won widespread fame for her 1998 New York Times bestseller, "The Orchid Thief",
about a real-life renegade plant dealer in the swamps of South Florida. The book was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning movie
Adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. Orlean is the author of seven other books, including "Animalish" and "Saturday Night". In "Rin Tin Tin",
Orlean reconstructs Corporal Lee Duncan’s serendipitous 1918 rescue of the German shepherd who would become his beloved companion and
an enduring American icon. Bestselling author Rebecca Skloot calls the book, "an incredible story about America, the human-animal bond,
and the countless ways we would be lost without dogs by our side, on our screens, and in our books."
Program includes the 65 minute feature "The Return of Rin Tin Tin" (1947) starring Robert Blake.
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