Homeward Bound by Peter Ames Carlin

Homeward Bound by Peter Ames Carlin

A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames Carlin

To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The boy from Queens scored his first hit record in 1957, just months after Elvis Presley ignited the rock era. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, his work helped define the youth movement of the '60s. On his own in the '70s, Simon made radio-dominating hits. He kicked off the '80s by reuniting with Garfunkel to perform for half a million New Yorkers in Central Park. Five years later, Simon s album Graceland sold millions and spurred an international political controversy. And it doesn t stop there.

The grandchild of Jewish immigrants from Hungary, the nearly 75-year-old singer-songwriter has not only sold more than 100 million records, won 15 Grammy awards and been installed into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame twice, but has also animated the meaning and flexibility of personal and cultural identity in a rapidly shrinking world.

Simon has also lived one of the most vibrant lives of modern times; a story replete with tales of Carrie Fisher, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Shelley Duvall, Nelson Mandela, drugs, depression, marriage, divorce, and more. A life story with the scope and power of an epic novel, Carlin s Homeward Bound is the first major biography of one of the most influential popular artists in American history.

Peter Ames Carlin is a writer and the author of various books, including Bruce, a Bruce Springsteen biography released in October of 2012. Carlin has previously worked as a freelance journalist, a senior writer for People magazine in New York City, and a television columnist and feature writer for The Oregonian in Portland. Carlin, who lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and three children, is a frequent speaker on music, art, and popular culture.