A biography elucidating the Academy Award–nominee’s meteoric rise, his tragic end, and his legacy. At the dawn of the 1990s, a new crew of leading men—Joh

When River Phoenix died in the early hours of Halloween night in 1993, a burgeoning screen talent was tragically destroyed. This book pays tribute to the young

Examines the life, career, and death of the actor who began performing very young and succumbed to a drug overdose at the age of twenty-three.