Books
Publications include:
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Stars (five editions from 1981)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Character Actors (three editions from 1985)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Directors (two editions)
- Quinlan's Illustrated Directory of Film Comedy Stars
- TV Times Film Guide (six editions from 1994)
- Wicked Women of the Screen
- British Sound Films: The Studio Years
Read more about this topic: David Quinlan (film Critic)
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—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
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