Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles

About the Author

Barney Hoskyns (London, England) is the cofounder and editorial director of the online library Rock's Backpages (www.rocksbackpages.com). A former U.S. correspondent for MOJO, Hoskyns writes for Uncut, The Observer Music Monthly, and other UK publications, and has contributed to Rolling Stone, GQ, Spin, and Harper's Bazaar. His biography of Tom Waits, Lowside of the Road, will be published in 2009 by Doubleday.