Michael Gray

MICHAEL GRAY IS A WRITER recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan and as an expert on rock'n'roll and blues history. He also writes on travel. HIS CLASSIC BOOK "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan" is being re-published as a 50th Anniversary 3-Volume paperback bby The FM Press (NYC); the 1st volume, aub-titled Language & Tradition, is out now and is also available on Kindle. The ISBN for the paperback is 979-8-9-9882887-0-1. This highly regarded and pioneering study of Bob Dylan's work has been out of print for over 10 years... until now. MICHAEL GRAY ALSO gives audio-visually rich illustrated talks at arts festivals, theaters, colleges etc. AND IS NOW ACCEPTING BOOKINGS TO SPEAK FROM OCTOBER 2023. Contact him through his website... ...HIS WEBSITE is http://www.michaelgray.net and this gives news, upcoming live appearances, a shop page where you can buy signed copies of his books, and much more. HIS OTHER BOOKS include: - "Outtakes on Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021", published in hardback in the UK by Route Books. - "The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia", a massive hardback and paperback first published in New York and London in 2006, and updated in 2008. - "Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell", the only biography of Georgia's greatest blues singer, Blind Willie McTell, published by Bloomsbury in the UK 2007 and by Chicago Review Press in the US in late 2009. MICHAEL ALSO CO-AUTHORED "The Elvis Atlas: A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America", published by Chartwell Books (US) in 2011. MICHAEL GRAY HAS GIVEN TALKS at the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland OH; Stanford University; the Institute for Folklore Studies in Great Britain & Canada; Goldsmiths College, London; the New School in NYC; & the University of Texas at Austin. In 2007 he gave the closing address at the University of Minnesota's 3-day symposium on Dylan's work, at which other speakers included Christopher Ricks and Greil Marcus. In 2011 he was a keynote speaker at Dylan conferences at the University of Vienna in Austra and the University of Bristol UK. In May 2023 he gave a talk at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa OK to celebrate one year of the Center being open and the 50th anniversary of the first US publication of "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan." WHEN NOT TRAVELING MICHAEL GRAY lives in France with his wife (food-writer Sarah Beattie) and a rescued dog named Iris. ______