The Making of Steven Spielberg

Ellen Wexler Assistant digital editor, humanities Like all unhappy families (with apologies to Tolstoy), Steven Spielberg’s family was unhappy in its own way. As an adult, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker has spent his career recapturing the unique flavor of his family’s unhappiness—and then inserting it into blockbusters about robots, aliens and lonely little boys. Over nearly five decades, Spielberg has…