Collection: Lawrence Schiller

Lawrence Schiller is an American photojournalist, film producer, director, and author. His work has been featured in prominent magazines throughout the world. Schiller also directed a number of award-winning motion pictures, notably The American Dreamer, with Dennis Hopper, and The Executioner’s Song, with Tommy Lee Jones. Schiller’s editorial direction of The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1972) which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. Schiller has produced many books, his most notable being with his friend and colleague Norman Mailer. Over nearly thirty-five years, the two published Marilyn (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), Oswald’s Tale (1995), Into the Mirror (2002), and The Executioner’s Song (1979), for which Mailer won the Pulitzer Prize. Schiller also co-authored (with James Willwerth) the New York Times number one best-selling American Tragedy (1996), Marilyn & Me (2012), and Streisand with Steve Schapiro (2016). Schiller has consulted for NBC News, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Ray Bradbury estate, and Annie Leibovitz Studio. After  the death of Norman Mailer in 2007, Schiller was named the president and co-founder of the Norman Mailer Center and Writer’s Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2023, Schiller’s archives were transferred to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. He is married to Nina Wiener and resides in Los Angeles.