Something Like an Autobiography (42 page)

Audie Bock was born in New York, grew up in Berkeley, California, and graduated from Wellesley College in 1967. She earned her master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University and is enrolled in a Ph.D. program in fine arts there. She has taught Japanese cinema at Yale, Harvard, and Berkeley. She has lived in Japan at different periods for a total of five years, including the time spent researching her book,
Japanese Film Directors
, when she first met Akira Kurosawa. She was an assistant producer of the international version of
Kagemusha
.