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‘Mike Nichols’ Captures a Star-Studded Life That Shuttled Between Broadway and Hollywood Buy Book ▾ When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. When the writer and director Mike Nichols was young, he had an allergic reaction to a whooping cough vaccine. The result was a complete and lifelong inability to grow hair. One way to read Mark Harris’s crisp new biography, “Mike Nichols: A Life,” is as a tender comedy...

Mark Harris new lively biography,  Mike Nichols: A Life , includes an anecdote oft-told in interviews by Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman, then an unknown, resisted reading for the part of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate, a plum role that could, and later did, make him a star. But at the time he felt he would have been miscast. "This character is so WASPish," he protested to Nichols, who directed the film. Nichols responded, "Maybe hes Jewish inside."  Nichols Jewish identity and his immig...