Robert Greenfield

Total similar authors (35)

• 

  Peter Doggett

  Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music, the entertainment industry and social and cultural history since 1980. A regular contributor to Mojo, Q and GQ, his books include The Art and Music of John Lennon, a volume detailing the creation of the Beatles’ Let It Be and Abbey Road albums; the pioneering study of the collision between rock and country music, Are You Ready for the Country? and, most recently, There’s a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of 60s Counter-culture.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Don Lattin

  Don Lattin is an award-winning journalist and who covers alternative and mainstream religious movements and figures in America. His work has appeared in dozens of U.S. magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where Lattin covered the religion beat for nearly two decades. He is also the author of six books.
  

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Nancy Marie Brown

  My books combine extremes: Science and sagas. Science and faith. History and fantasy. They ask, What have we overlooked? Whose story must not be forgotten? For 20 years, I worked as a science writer at Penn State University. Now I write from a farm in Vermont, where the days are quiet and cool. Icelandic horses graze outside my windows, and every summer I travel to Iceland in search of adventure--and inspiration.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Robert Hunter

  Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
  This is the “catch-all” profile.
  
  Current authors
  
  Robert^^Hunter American musician, novelist
  Robert^^^Hunter ceramics
  Robert^^^^Hunter self help/business
  
  Robert Frank Hunter illustrator
  Robert^E. Hunter American diplomat
  Robert^^E. Hunter American surgeon
  Robert N. Hunter road engineer
  Robert P. Hunter veterinary drug specialist
  
  Dead authors
  
  Robert C. Hunter lyricist, The Grateful Dead (1941-2019)
  Robert Brockie Hunter British physician (1915-1994)
  Robert Hancock Hunter, known for memoir (1813-1902)
  Robert M.T. Hunter American politician (1809-1887)
  
  Robert^^^^^Hunter Canadian environmentalist; co-founder of Greenpeace (1941-2005)
  Robert^^^^^^Hunter American politician and

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Dennis McNally

  Dennis McNally, author, historian, and longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead, was born into the singular world of the postwar military-industrial complex. The son of an Army counterintelligence officer and a determined mother who pursued a college degree even while battling terminal cancer, McNally’s early years were shaped by frequent relocations, both in the U.S. and abroad, and by a growing awareness of American culture and history. After an education that culminated in graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts, he broke with academic convention by choosing his dissertation topic early: the life and work of Jack Kerouac. His resulting biography, Desolate Angel, published in 1979, impressed Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Gar

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Steve Parish

  Steve Parish is an acclaimed Australian photographer, naturalist, and publisher whose work has shaped public appreciation of Australia's natural heritage. Born in Great Britain in 1945, he developed a deep love for nature early in life through activities like spearfishing and hunting. At 17, he joined an expedition to Kangaroo Island led by underwater photography pioneer Igo Oak, an experience that ignited his passion for photography and natural history. After joining the Navy at 18, his posting to Jervis Bay allowed him to hone his diving and photography skills, contributing to research for the Australian Museum and resulting in his first book, Oceans of Life.
  In 1985, he founded Steve Parish Publishing, which became a multimillion-dollar e

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories. He is also known for his promotion and use of psychedelics and other mind-altering substances (and to a lesser extent, alcohol and firearms), his libertarian views, and his iconoclastic contempt for authority. He committed suicide in 2005.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Amy Tan

  Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美; pinyin: Tán Ēnměi; born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose novels include The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God’s Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, Saving Fish From Drowing, and The Valley of Amazement. She is the author of two memoirs, The Opposite of Fate and Where the Past Begins. Her two children’s books are The Chinese Siamese Cat and The Moon Lady. She is also the co-screenwriter of the film adaptation of The Joy Luck, the librettist of the opera The Bonesetter’s Daughter, and the creative consultant to the PBS animated series Sagwa the Chinese Chinese Cat.
  
  Tan is an instructor with MasterClass on writing, memory and imagination. She is featured in the American Masters document

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Carl Hiaasen

  Carl Hiaasen was born and raised in Florida. After graduating from the University of Florida, he joined the Miami Herald as a general assignment reporter and went on to work for the newspaper’s weekly magazine and prize-winning investigations team. As a journalist and author, Carl has spent most of his life advocating for the protection of the Florida Everglades. He and his family live in southern Florida.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Terence McKenna

  Terence Kemp McKenna was a writer, philosopher, psychonaut and ethnobotanist. He was noted for his knowledge of the use of psychedelic, plant-based entheogens, and subjects ranging from shamanism, the theoretical origins of human consciousness, and his concept of novelty theory.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Ron Chernow

  Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Between 1973 and 1982, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. In the mid-80s Chernow went to work at the Twentieth Century Fund, a prestigious New York think tank, where he served as director of financial policy studies and received what he described as “a crash course in economics and financial history.”
  
  Chernow’s journalistic talents combined with his experience studying financial policy culminated in the writing of his extraordinary first book, The House of Morgan: A

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Charles R. Cross

  Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
  
  See also:
  
  Charles R. Cross
  
  This is Charles R. Cross, a rock music journalist and author based in Seattle. He is the founder of Backstreets magazine, a periodical for fans of Bruce Springsteen, editor of "Springsteen: the Man and His Music," a compilation of Backstreets articles, and is also author of a biography of Kurt Cobain, titled Heavier Than Heaven. His most recent release is entitled Room Full Of Mirrors - A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix.
  
  In 2004, while conducting research for the Hendrix book, Cross rediscovered the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, in an abandoned section of Greenwood Memorial Park, where Jimi Hendrix himself is

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Jonathan Eig

  Jonathan Eig is the author of six books, four of them New York Times best sellers, as well as four books for children. He is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
  His most recent book is "King: A Life." His previous book, Ali: A Life," was the winner of the PEN Award and hailed as an "epic" by Joyce Carol Oates in her New York Times review.
  His other books are: "Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig;" "Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season;" "Get Capone;" and "The Birth of the Pill."
  Jonathan served as consulting producer on the Ken Burns PBS documentary on Muhammad Ali.
  

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Keith Richards

  Keith Richards is an English guitarist, songwriter, singer, producer and founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm playing. In 2003 Richards was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
  
  With songwriting partner and Rolling Stones lead vocalist Mick Jagger, Richards has written and recorded hundreds of songs, fourteen of which Rolling Stone magazine lists among the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
  
  There is more than one author by this name on Goodreads
  

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Stanley Booth

  Stanley Booth was an American music journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. Characterized by Richie Unterberger as a "fine, if not extremely prolific, writer who generally speaking specializes in portraits of roots musicians, most of whom did their best work in the '60s and '50s," Booth has written extensively about Keith Richards, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons, B.B. King, and Al Green. He chronicled his travels with the Rolling Stones in several of his works.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Phil Lesh

  Philip Chapman Lesh was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of playing improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career.
  After the group disbanded in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with a side project, Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their repertoire, as well as songs by members of his own group. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. He scaled back touring in 2014 but continued to perform concerts.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  David McGowan

  Librarian note:
  There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Jake Tapper

  Jake Tapper is the best-selling author of six books, his most recent being All the Demons Are Here, to be published July 11, 2023 by Little Brown & Co.
  
  On April 24, 2018, Little, Brown and Company published Tapper's first novel, a political thriller entitled The Hellfire Club. The novel follows a fictitious freshman Congressman discovering corruption and conspiracy in 1950s Washington, at the height of the McCarthy era. The book debuted at Number 3 on the New York Times Best-Seller List for Hardcover fiction, and remained on the Best-Seller list for four weeks total. The Associated Press called The Hellfire Club "insightful...well-written and worthwhile." Tablet Magazine called the novel "startlingly good." USA Today said the author "sizzles

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  John Perry Barlow

  John Perry Barlow was an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Flea

  Michael Peter Balzary, better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-born American musician and occasional actor. He is best known as the bassist, co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers with whom he was inducted in 2012 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  John Le Carré

  John le Carré, the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), was an English author of espionage novels. Le Carré had resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than 40 years, where he owned a mile of cliff close to Land's End.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.
  
  He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
  
  After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing st

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Tom Wolfe

  Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.
  
  Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.
  
  
  He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
  
  Tom Wolfe is

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Bill Kreutzmann

  BILL KREUTZMANN co-founded the Grateful Dead in 1965 with his musical cohorts Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Phil Lesh. As the drummer in that band for all 30 years until they disbanded in 1995, he performed more than 2,300 concerts and played on every one of their albums. He continues to play music in various bands including Billy and the Kids. He lives on an organic farm in Hawaii.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Dan Nadel

  Dan Nadel is the author of Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life (Scribner, April 2025). His previous books include, It’s Life as a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980; Peter Saul: Professional Artist Correspondence, 1945–1976; and Art Out of Time: Unknown Comic Visionaries, 1900–1969. Nadel has curated exhibitions for galleries and museums internationally including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the founder of PictureBox, a publishing and packaging company that produced over one hundred books, objects, and zines from 2000 to 2014, including the Grammy Award–winning design for Wilco’s 2004 album A Ghost Is Born. Dan is the curator-at-large f

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Phil Lesh

  Philip Chapman Lesh was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of playing improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career.
  After the group disbanded in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with a side project, Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their repertoire, as well as songs by members of his own group. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. He scaled back touring in 2014 but continued to perform concerts.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Bill Kreutzmann

  BILL KREUTZMANN co-founded the Grateful Dead in 1965 with his musical cohorts Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Phil Lesh. As the drummer in that band for all 30 years until they disbanded in 1995, he performed more than 2,300 concerts and played on every one of their albums. He continues to play music in various bands including Billy and the Kids. He lives on an organic farm in Hawaii.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Alan Paul

  Alan Paul's last two books have been instant New York Times bestsellers: One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, and Texas Flood: the Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. The latter has been optioned and is being developed for both documentary and feature films. His first book, Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing, is about his experiences raising an American family, forming a band and becoming an unlikely rock star in Beijing.
  
  He also founded Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the music of the Allman Brothers Band, featuring members of the Dickey Betts, Jaimoe and Gregg Allman bands. He is a regular guest on radio shows and a frequent c

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Robert Hunter

  Librarian note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database.
  This is the “catch-all” profile.
  
  Current authors
  
  Robert^^Hunter American musician, novelist
  Robert^^^Hunter ceramics
  Robert^^^^Hunter self help/business
  
  Robert Frank Hunter illustrator
  Robert^E. Hunter American diplomat
  Robert^^E. Hunter American surgeon
  Robert N. Hunter road engineer
  Robert P. Hunter veterinary drug specialist
  
  Dead authors
  
  Robert C. Hunter lyricist, The Grateful Dead (1941-2019)
  Robert Brockie Hunter British physician (1915-1994)
  Robert Hancock Hunter, known for memoir (1813-1902)
  Robert M.T. Hunter American politician (1809-1887)
  
  Robert^^^^^Hunter Canadian environmentalist; co-founder of Greenpeace (1941-2005)
  Robert^^^^^^Hunter American politician and

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Blair Jackson

  Blair Jackson is a music journalist and author best known for Garcia: An American Life and Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped. He edited 27 issues of The Golden Road fanzine and has contributed to Mix and Electronic Musician. His books include Classic Tracks, exploring iconic rock and soul recordings. A passionate reader of history and music biographies, he shares his insights on Dead.net. He lives in California and is the father of two children.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Steve Parish

  Steve Parish is an acclaimed Australian photographer, naturalist, and publisher whose work has shaped public appreciation of Australia's natural heritage. Born in Great Britain in 1945, he developed a deep love for nature early in life through activities like spearfishing and hunting. At 17, he joined an expedition to Kangaroo Island led by underwater photography pioneer Igo Oak, an experience that ignited his passion for photography and natural history. After joining the Navy at 18, his posting to Jervis Bay allowed him to hone his diving and photography skills, contributing to research for the Australian Museum and resulting in his first book, Oceans of Life.
  In 1985, he founded Steve Parish Publishing, which became a multimillion-dollar e

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Peter Conners

  In the mid-80s, Peter Conners submerged into a life of writing, music, and exploration, and he hasn’t looked back since. He has published nine books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, and edited dozens of volumes of poetry and prose. His nonfiction books – Cornell ‘77, Growing Up Dead, JAMerica, and White Hand Society — have garnered him a reputation as a leading chronicler of the Grateful Dead, jam band, and countercultural community.
  
  Conners regularly gives readings and lectures at universities, conferences, bookstores, art galleries, and on panels related to music, counterculture, poetry, fiction, and editing. His books have received reviews in such places as Rolling Stone, Vice, Library Journal, Penthouse, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Th

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Stanley Booth

  Stanley Booth was an American music journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. Characterized by Richie Unterberger as a "fine, if not extremely prolific, writer who generally speaking specializes in portraits of roots musicians, most of whom did their best work in the '60s and '50s," Booth has written extensively about Keith Richards, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons, B.B. King, and Al Green. He chronicled his travels with the Rolling Stones in several of his works.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  John Perry Barlow

  John Perry Barlow was an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a political activist who had been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He was also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead.

  Buy books on Amazon
• 

  Mike Ayers

  
  
  My new book, Sharing in the Groove: The Untold Story of the '90s Jam Band Explosion and the Scene That Followed, is an oral history of this wonderful time period featuring all new interviews from Phish, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, Spin Doctors, moe., Medeski, Martin & Wood, the Disco Biscuits, String Cheese Incident, God Street Wine, Strangefolk, and many more.
  
  My first book, One Last Song, was a Variety best music book of the year selection in 2020. In it, I asked 32 musicians one question: What's the last song you'd ever want to hear? The book features answers from an array of contemporary and classic musicians, including Andre 3000, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, Killer Mike, The National's Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers, Sonny Rollins, Jim

  Buy books on Amazon