John Lahr

Son of actor Bert Lahr, best known as the Cowardly Lion in O Mágico de Oz (1939).

[on the favorite of his own published works] Each book inevitably engineers some emotional transition in a writer's life, but given one I'd say my first book, 'Notes on a Cowardly Lion', which I finished the week my father died when I was twenty-six. In it, I mourned him and preserved him.