Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan's friend, champion and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Dylan's formative years in Greenwich Village NYC, and it is the only biography that has been written with his active cooperation.
Following his Nobel Prize for Literature Award in 2016, Dylan's standing is higher than at any time since the 1960s and Shelton's book is now seen as a classic.
