Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-626) and index.

'A relatively normal life' -- 'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945 -- 'Stan Kubrick, photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC' 1945-1949 -- 'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951 -- 'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953 -- 'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this movie but me' 1953-1955 -- 'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956 -- 'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956 -- 'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958 -- 'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959 -- 'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on' 1959-1961 -- 'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962 -- 'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you might have suspected' 1963-1964 -- 'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965 -- 'Mr Cool' 1965-1968 -- 'Americans don't like films where people write with feathers' 1968-1970 -- 'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972 -- 'I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering' 1972-1974 -- 'He is never far wrong about anything' 1974-1975 -- 'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977 -- 'He was an artist, with the inner life of one, dreaming about his work' 1977-1978 -- 'How can we do it better than it's ever been done before?' 1978-1980 -- 'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982 -- 'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and terrifying' 1982-1984 -- 'As daunting an inscrutible as a monolith' 1984-1987 -- 'I might just tinker with it a little. . .' 1988-1991 -- 'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993 -- 'His creative process and mind were not sufficiently aligned' 1994-1995 -- 'Didn't he wind up. . .in some place with a very bad climate?' 1995-1996 -- 'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999 -- 'The guy who was my pal' March-December 1999.