Howard Sounes
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Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Welling, South East London, England, United Kingdom |
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Howard Sounes (born 1965) is a British author, journalist and biographer.
Biography
Born in
Sounes wrote a biography of American poet, novelist and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, becoming so engrossed in the subject that he resigned from his newspaper job to devote himself to the project. Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life was published in 1998 by Grove Press in the US and Canongate in the UK. Sounes also wrote a companion book in 2000 called Bukowski in Pictures. He was able to publish the first known photo of Bukowski's lover and muse, Jane Cooney Baker.[citation needed]
Since his teenage years Sounes had been a fan of singer/songwriter
Sounes has worked as a full-time author since publishing his Dylan biography. His later works have included a scathing investigation of professional golf, The Wicked Game, and a cultural history of the 1970s, entitled Seventies. In the mid-2000s it was reported that he was working on a book called Heist, an account of the world's biggest cash robbery. His biography of Sir Paul McCartney, FAB: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, was published in August 2010. Sounes subsequently admitted that his work represented too many of his personal opinions about McCartney's music.[1]
Sounes' latest book, Amy, 27: Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club, was published in July 2013 by
References
- ^ "Interview with Howard Sounes" Paul Or Nothing Podcast (2017)
Partial bibliography
- Fred & Rose (London, Warner Books, 1995)
- Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (New York, Grove, 1998)
- Bukowski in Pictures (Edinburgh, Canongate, 2000)
- Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (New York, Grove, 2001)
- The Wicked Game (New York, William Morrow, 2004)
- Seventies (London, Simon & Schuster, 2005)
- Amy, 27: Amy Winehouse and the 27 Club (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
- The Life of Lou Reed: Notes from the Velvet Underground (London, Black Swan, 2019)