Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

The only biography that has been written with Dylan’s active cooperation, this book took 20 years to complete and received widespread critical acclaim when it was finally published. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961 and became Dylan's friend, champion and critic. Dylan gave Shelton access to his parents, Abe and Beatty Zimmerman - whom no other journalist has ever interviewed; 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', allowing Shelton to craft an intimate portrait of the singer’s formative years in Greenwich Village NYC, concluding with his triumphant 1978 world tour.