About the author
MICHAEL LYDON is a writer and musician who lives in New York City with his wife, composer Ellen Mandel. Author of many books, among them Rock Folk, Boogie Lightning, Ray Charles: Man and Music, and Writing and Life, Lydon has written for many periodicals as well, the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Village Voice among them.
He is also a songwriter and playwright and, with Ellen Mandel, has composed an opera, Passion in Pigskin. A Yale graduate, Lydon is a member of ASCAP and on the faculty of St. John’s University and the Third Street Music School Settlement.