I "read" this one on audio book...don't know if that constitutes "cheating" (LOL), but this was magnificent. Anthony Quinn narrated large portions fo the text, mostly modern times, with flashbacks and historical recollections by a younger male narrator.
Listening to Quinn feels like listening to a long-lost grandfather who taught with his life about manhood, about bravery, kindness, as well as human failings and mistakes. Quinn's origins as son of a sharecropper contrast with early hard work in Hollywood, and peaking with halcyon descriptions of Italian summer afternoons in a seaside Italian cafe, where he makes his breakthrough by landing the role of Zorba the Greek.
A wonderful roller coaster of a biography, created by a true gentleman and passionate artist.