Eddie Muller
Muller in 2006
Born	(1958-10-15) October 15, 1958 (age 65)[1][better source needed] San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	San Francisco Art Institute
Genre	non-fiction
Spouse	Kathleen Maria Milne

Eddie Muller (born October 15, 1958) is an American writer based in San Francisco. He is known for his books about movies, particularly film noir, and is the host of Noir Alley on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).^[2]

Early life and education

Muller is the son of famous San Francisco boxing writer Eddie Muller.

Muller studied with filmmaker George Kuchar at the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 1970s.

Career

Muller is the founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and is co-programmer of the Oakland NOIR CITY film festival and the NOIR CITY satellite festivals.^[3] Muller is considered a film noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's series of film noir DVDs and introducing Turner Classic Movies's weekly Saturday night "Noir Alley" movie feature.

Laura Sheppard, director of events at Mechanics' Institute in San Francisco, dubbed him "The Czar of Noir"^{[citation needed]} The quote is often misattributed to the novelist James Ellroy.^{[citation needed]}

Muller based the character of Billy Nichols in his period crime novel "The Distance" (2002) after his father.^{[citation needed]} The character returned in Muller's 2003 novel Shadow Boxer.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Muller is married to Kathleen Marie Milne.^[4]

Honors

• Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best critical/biographical work, Mystery Writers of America (1999) for "Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir"^[4]
• Won the Best First Novel award of the Private Eye Writers of America (2002) for The Distance^{[citation needed]}
• Nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best critical/biographical work, Mystery Writers of America (2003) for "The Art of Noir: The Posters and Graphics from the Classic Era of Film Noir"^[4]
• Nominated for the Shamus Award for Best P.I. First Novel (2003) for "The Distance"^[4]

Books

Nonfiction

• (with Daniel Faris) Grindhouse: The Forbidden World of "Adults Only" Cinema (1996); ISBN 0-312-14609-4
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (1998); ISBN 0-312-18076-4
• Dark City Dames: The Wicked Women of Film Noir (2001); ISBN 0-06-039369-6
• The Art Of Noir: The Posters & Graphics From The Classical Era Of Film Noir (2004); ISBN 1-58567-603-9
• (with Tab Hunter) Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star (2005); ISBN 1-56512-548-7
• Gun Crazy: The Origin of American Outlaw Cinema (2014); ISBN 978-0-692-26026-5
• Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir (Revised and Expanded Edition) (2021); ISBN 9780762498970

Fiction

• The Distance (2002); ISBN 0-7432-1443-9
• Shadow Boxer (2003); ISBN 0-7432-1444-7