Steve Ryfle is an author, journalist, and documentary film producer. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Criterion’s The Current,Cineaste,Virginia Quarterly Review, In These Times, Bright Lights Film Journal, Turner Classic Movies, PopMatters, POV, Time Out New York, and other online and print publications. His books include Japan’s Favorite MonStar: The Unauthorized Biography of “The Big G” (1988) and Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa (2017), with Ed Godziszewski. He also co-wrote, with Joal Ryan, the 2020 NY Emmy-winning documentary Miracle on 42nd Street and, with Ed Godziazewski, the 2008 documentary Bringing Godzilla Down to Size.

The Steve Ryfle “Desegregating Hollywood” Interview Collection consists of interviews Ryfle conducted between 1999 and 2019 for his book Desegregating Hollywood: How the Civil Rights Movement Changed Film and Television. Individuals featured in the interviews include Diahann Carroll, Marlene Clark, Philip Fenty, Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Pam Grier, Julius Harris, Paul Heller, Norman Jewison, Jim Kelly, Louise Meriwether, Paul Mooney, Ishmael Reed, Michael Schultz, S. Pearl Sharp, Christopher St. John, Melvin Van Peebles, and Sam Waymon, among many others discussing their lives, careers, and experiences in Hollywood.

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