Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographer and poet.

After different jobs, he started writing with music magazines like Creem and Fusion.

His first book, Hellfire, published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis established him as a significant writer on the music scene. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, Emmett Miller (one of the last minstrel singers), and Arnold Rothstein (the man who allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series and partially inspired the character Hyman Roth in The Godfather Part II).

He has also published a collection of poetry, Chaldea, and the novels: Cut Numbers, Trinities and In the Hand of Dante. The latter is considered, by the author himself, to be his finest work. He has been published in Vanity Fair and Esquire.

His writings have been collected in The Nick Tosches Reader.

He is also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

Bibliography

• Country, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80713-0 on country music
• Hellfire, 1982 for the first edition, Grove Press, USA, ISBN 0-8021-3566-8 on Jerry Lee Lewis
• Dangerous Dances: the Authorized Biography (with Daryl Hall and John Oates), 1984, ISBN 0-312-35716-8
• Unsung Heroes of Rock N' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis, 1984 for the first edition, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80891-9
• Power On Earth, 1986, Arbor House Pub Co, USA, ISBN 0-87795-796-7 on Michele Sindona
  • Template:It icon Il mistero Sindona. le memorie e le rivelazioni di Michele Sindona (Published in Milano by editor SugarCo in 1986. 316 pages) Dewey class: 332.1
  • Template:De icon Geschäfte mit dem Vatikan. Die Affäre Sindona. München 1987. ISBN 3-426-03970-2
• Cut Numbers, 1988 for the first edition, Back Bay Books, USA, ISBN 0-316-89658-6, novel
• Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, 1992 for the first edition, Delta, USA, ISBN 0-385-33429-X on Dean Martin
• Trinities, 1994, St Martins Mass Market Paper, USA, ISBN 0-312-95689-4, novel
• Chaldea and I Dig Girls, 1999, C U Z Editions, ISBN 0-9666328-5-0, poetry
• The Devil And Sonny Liston, 2000, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89775-2 on Sonny Liston
• The Nick Tosches Reader, 2000, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80969-9
• Where Dead Voices Gather, 2001, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89507-5 on Emmett Miller
• The Last Opium Den, 2002, Bloomsbury , USA, ISBN 1-58234-227-X
• In The Hand Of Dante, 2002, Little Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89524-5, novel official website on Dante & Nick Tosches
• King of the Jews: The Arnold Rothstein Story, 2005, on Arnold Rothstein

Discography

• Nick Tosches' official bio
• Blue Eyes And Exit Wounds, website spoken word and poetry CD with Hubert Selby Jr., 1998
• Nick & Homer, with Homer Henderson, 1998
• Fuckthelivingfuckthedead, with Patti Smith, 2001, DSA, France
• For the taking Vol I from CHALDEA with Rick Whitehurst 2006

External Links

• "Saint Nick" by Mike Miliard, The Boston Phoenix, September 26, 2002