THE YOUNG DUKE: THE EARLY LIFE OF JOHN WAYNE Hardcover - 2007

Howard Kazanjian is an award-winning producer and entertainment executive who has been producing feature films and television programs for more than twenty-five years. While vice president of production for Lucasfilm Ltd., he produced two of the highest grossing films of all time: "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi." He also managed production of another top-ten box-office hit, "The Empire Strikes Back." Some of his other notable credits include "The Rookies, Demolition Man, " and the two-hour pilot and first season of J.A.G.
In addition to his production experience, Kazanjian has worked with some of the finest directors in the history of cinema. He has worked closely with such legends as Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, Sam Peckinpah, Robert Wise, Joshua Logan, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola. He is a longtime voting member in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America, and the Directors Guild of America. The California native is also a trustee of Azusa Pacific University. Chris Enss is an award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies, and is the co-author (with JoAnn Chartier) of "Love Untamed: True Romances Stories of the Old West, Gilded Girls: Women Entertainers of the Old West, "and "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon: Women Patriots and Soldiers of the Old West "and "The Cowboy and the Senorita";" Happy Trails; None Wounded, None Missing All Dead; "and" Thunder Over the Prairie--"soon to be a motion picture"--" with Howard Kazanjian. Her recent books include "Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West "and "The Doctor Wore Petticoats. "
Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona.