Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

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Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. Hebecame Dylans friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailedas the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tellsthe intimate and first-hand story of Bob Dylans formative years in Greenwich Village NYC,and it is the only biography that has been written with his active cooperation.

Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman whom no otherjournalist has ever interviewed; to his brother, David; to childhood friends from Hibbing;to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis; and to Suze Rotolo, the museimmortalized on the cover ofFreewheelin , among others. Concluding Dylansstory during his triumphant 1978 world tour, No Direction Home took 20 years tocomplete and when it was finally published the book received widespread criticalacclaim.

Following his Nobel Prize for Literature Award in 2016, Dylans standing is higher than atany time since the 1960s and Sheltons book is now seen as a classic. This new illustratededition, published in the year of Dylans 80th birthday, includes key images of Dylanthroughout his incredible, enduring career, making it a must for all Dylan fans.

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Robert Shelton was born in Chicago in 1926 and was on the staff of the New YorkTimes for two decades until he went to Europe. Best known as the man whodiscovered Bob Dylan, he was the principal chronicler of the 1960s US folkrevival. His books include the Woody Guthrie collection Born to Win , The Face ofFolk Music , The Country Music Story and The Electric Muse . He died in 1995.

Elizabeth Thomson knew Robert Shelton for the last 15 years of his life. She wasresponsible for the 2011 edition of No Direction Home, which restored Sheltons original manuscript and reshaped the book so ithonoured his original intentions. This new edition abridges that text making itaccessible to a wider readership. Thomson has been a Visiting Fellow of theOpen University Sixties Research Group and was a contributor to The New GroveDictionary of Music & Musicians. A widely published journalist, her booksinclude Conclusions On the Wall: New Essays on Bob Dylan , The DylanCompanion, and Joan Baez: The Last Leaf.