Charlotte Chandler

Lyn Erhard, better known under the pen name of Charlotte Chandler, is an American biographer and playwright. Chandler authored biographies of Groucho Marx, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Mae West and Alfred Hitchcock.

A resident of New York City, Chandler is a member of the board of Film at Lincoln Center.

Selected works

(1978). (1984). (1986). Confessions of a Nightingale, a one-person play that utilizes parts of her biography on Tennessee Williams's The Ultimate Seduction. (1995). (2002). (2005). (2006) The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis, A Personal Biography: New York; Simon & Schuster. (2007). (2008). (2011).