An authorized biography of the celebrated actor chronicles Penn's origins as never before, portraying the influence of his father, Leo, a World War II vet and 1940s blacklist victim, as well as friendships with Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Woody Allen, Bono, and others.
Brash, iconoclastic, controversial, intelligent and "the best actor of his generation," all have been used to describe Sean Penn. Throughout his remarkable career in the dramatic arts, as well as his occasionally explosive personal life, Sean Penn has proved he rarely plays by...