Thomas Mallon - Up with the Sun

Published March 21, 2023 at 3:00 PM EDT

Book cover for "Up with the Sun" by Thomas Mallon

Thomas Mallon’s new novel, "Up with The Sun," mixes murder mystery and showbiz history to tell the fictionalized account of the life and untimely death of Dick Kallman - an up-and-coming actor in the fifties and sixties—until he wasn’t. Only to reappear in the news as a murder victim in 1980.

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