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The reason for that, however, is not so much because of its page count or Curtis's stylistic choices; it is because Buster Keaton himself was constantly on the move, tirelessly working right up until his death from cancer in 1966 at the age of 70. Admittedly, James Curtis's I Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life i is one of the most exhausting and exhaustive books about a celebrity I have ever read. There are multiple flashbacks throughout the book used as transitions from part to part but they are generally brief, so Curtis can get to Keaton's life story, starting at when he and his entire family were a vibrant vaudevillian comedy act during the turn of the 19th century. [Extracted from the article]