The Best of Friends: Profiles of Extraordinary Friendships

by David Michaelis

An account of seven great friendships explores the bonds of love and friendship existing between two men, uncomplicated by sexual implications, detailing relationships between Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, John Kennedy and LeMoyne Billings, and others

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Psychology, Biography

318 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1983

About the author

David Michaelis grew up in Cambridge, Mass. and Washington, D. C., was educated at Concord Academy and Princeton University, and is the author of the national bestsellers N. C. WYETH: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1998; available from Harper Perennial), which won the 1999 Ambassador Book Award for Biography, given by the English-Speaking Union of the United States, and SCHULZ AND PEANUTS: A Biography (Harper, 2007; Harper Perennial), a National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended Book, among other honors. He lives in New York City and Tenants Harbor, Maine, with his wife the documentary film producer Nancy Steiner, and their family.