Steven C. Smith is an award-winning author and four-time Emmy-nominated producer. He received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for his biographies of Bernard Herrmann (A Heart at Fire’s Center; UC Press, 1991) and Max Steiner (Music by Max Steiner; Oxford, 2020). His latest book is Hitchcock & Herrmann: The Friendship and Film Scores That Changed Cinema (Oxford, 2025). Steven’s over-200 documentaries include collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Stephen Sondheim, John Williams, and Julie Andrews. He has lectured at the Library of Congress, the American Film Institute, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum.

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