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Nick Tosches

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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.

He has also published a collection of poetry, and novels and has been published in Vanity Fair and 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
    • 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 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, novel official website on Dante
  • King of the Jews: The Arnold Rothstein Story, 2005, on Arnold Rothstein

Discography