Robert Shelton, a critic for the New York Times in 1961, caught an early Bob Dylan gig at Folk City in Greenwich Village and wrote an effusive review for the newspaper. Listen to Elizabeth Thomson live at Book Expo America on the BEA Podcast. This new edition, published to coincide with Dylan's 70th birthday on May 24, 2011, restores significant parts of Shelton's original manuscript and also includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, alongside updated footnotes and bibliography, and a new selective discography, making it a must for all Dylan aficionados. Today, everything Bob Dylan does guarantees saturation media coverage, and a new edition of No Direction Home is long overdue. Two decades on, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic of the genre.
No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and received widespread critical acclaim. Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman whom no other journalist has ever interviewed in depth to his brother, David to childhood friends from Hibbing to fellow students and friends from Minneapolis and to Suze Rotolo, the muse immortalized on the cover of Freewheelin', among others. This book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. He became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer first arrived in New York.
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