by Henry Denker · Circulo De Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422611790
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«Fabricante de estrellas» is the novel by Henry Denker, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (356 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows H.P. Koenig, owner of the world's largest movie studio, an unscrupulous tycoon who controls producers, directors, agents and actors. Power, ambition and seduction mark the careers of those who move around Koenig in classic Hollywood.
Translation from English by Estela Cantó. The novel was originally published as 'Starmaker' in 1977.
For fiction readers interested in classic Hollywood and the inner workings of power in the film industry.
Henry Denker was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He began his career as a radio and television writer, and is credited as the originator and writer of what he described as the first television series ever produced, False Witness, broadcast on NBC-TV in 1939. He wrote the first script for the religious radio series The Greatest Story Ever Told, which won a special George Foster Peabody Citation in 1949. Of his 34 published novels, 17 were selected and published by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Six of his plays were produced on Broadway. Trained as a lawyer, Denker drew on his legal background throughout his prolific writing career across radio, television, theater, and fiction.
