Throw in the sheer tonnage of think pieces and appreciations and other navel-gazing and you’d be forgiven for asking: Do we also need a book about Lorne Michaels? Somehow, despite all of the above, Susan Morrison’s “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” — out Tuesday — emerges as indispensable,

Longtime ‘New Yorker’ editor and writer Susan Morrison set out to write a biography of the historically press-averse ‘Saturday Night Live’ creator with or without his participation. She details why she thinks he eventually came to the table—and held nothing back.

Lorne Michaels, who MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell calls “the television miracle worker,” is the subject of Susan Morrison’s book called “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live.” After Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary,

Just two days after the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special aired, a new biography on the man behind all of it is out now. “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” is the “definitive biography” of Lorne Michaels,