Quentin Tarantino was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is the writer-director of nine feature films, the winner of two Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay, and the author of the novel Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Cinema Speculation is his first work of nonfiction.

"The screenplay for the cult classic film by the legendary writer-director returns to print in time for its thirtieth anniversary. Pulp Fiction is arguably the most influential American film of the 1990s. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and later selected by the Library of Congress for preservation on the National Film Registry, Quentin Tarantino's second film was immediately hailed as a masterpiece ("a triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. Tarantino's ripe imagination" -Janet Maslin, The New York Times). Now, on the heels of Tarantino's bestselling forays into both the novel and essay form, this iconic screenplay returns to print in a 30th anniversary edition"--