Nick Tosches

Nick Tosches (1949-) is an American writer, music journalist, novelist, biographist 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 one of the best living music writer.

He has also published a collection of poetry, and novels and has been published in Vanity Fair, Esquire...

Bibliography

• Country, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0306807130 on country music
• Hellfire, 1982 for the first edition, Grove Press, USA, ISBN 0802135668 on Jerry Lee Lewis
• 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 0306808919
• Power On Earth, 1986, Arbor House Pub Co, USA, ISBN 0877957967
• Cut Numbers, 1988 for the first edition, Back Bay Books, USA, ISBN 0316896586, novel
• Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, 1992 for the first edition, Delta, USA, ISBN 038533429X on Dean Martin
• Trinities, 1994, St Martins Mass Market Paper, USA, ISBN 0312956894, novel
• Chaldea and I Dig Girls, 1999, C U Z Editions, ISBN 0966632850, poetry
• The Devil And Sonny Liston, 2000, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0316897752 on Sonny Liston
• The Nick Tosches Reader, 2000, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0306809699
• Where Dead Voices Gather, 2001, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0316895075
• The Last Opium Den, 2002, Bloomsbury , USA, ISBN 158234227X
• In The Hand Of Dante, 2002, Little Brown, USA, ISBN 0316895245, novelofficial website on Dante
• King of the Jews: The Arnold Rothstein Story, 2005, on Arnold Rothstein

Discography

• Blue Eyes And Exit Wounds, spoken word with Hubert Selby Jr., 1998
• Nick & Homer, with Homer Henderson, 1998
• Fuckthelivingfuckthedead, with Patti Smith, 2001, DSA, France