Neal Gabler’s Walt Disney is the long-awaited, definitive biography of one of the most important - and mysterious - figures in the history of American entertainment and culture. As the first writer granted total access to the Disney archives, Gabler reveals the man long obscured by the public image. Gabler is the author of An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, and Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.