Michael Feeney Callan
![Callan in [[New York City]] in June 2011](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Michael_Feeney_Callan%2C_New_York_City%2C_June_2011.jpg)
He wrote the template Irish police drama series, ''The Burke Enigma'', starring Donal McCann, and ''Love Is'', starring Gabriel Byrne, and went on to write and direct a number of documentaries, among them ''The Beach Boys Today'', a film that marked the band's 30th anniversary. He has published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Harris. His biography of Robert Redford (''Robert Redford: The Biography''; Knopf, 2011) was chosen by the ''Sunday Times'' as one of its recommended Best Books of 2011. It was subsequently awarded the Lucien Barriere Prize for Literature by the jury of the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2013, he published his second volume of poetry, ''An Argument for Sin''. Provided by Wikipedia