Tim Riley

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TIM RILEY BIOGRAPHY AUTHOR, SPEAKER and NPR CRITIC Tim Riley contributes to NPR's HERE AND NOW, and has written for the LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS, the NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, NEWSWEEK, truthdig, NATIONAL MEMO, BOSTON MAGAZINE, the BOSTON PHOENIX, MONITOR RADIO, THE WORLD, and STUDIO 360 (PRI). Riley is the author of: Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1988), which was hailed by the New York Times as bringing "new insight to the act we've known for all these years..." He has also written Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary (Knopf/Vintage 1992), Madonna: Illustrated (Hyperion 1992), and Fever: How Rock'n'Roll Transformed Gender in America (St. Martin's Press 2004). His work is widely used in college courses on pop culture, and he gave a keynote address at BEATLES 2000, the first international academic conference on the band in Finland. His widely praised biography of John Lennon appeared in fall 2011 from Hyperion, and Kirkus Reviews selected it as a "biography of the year." His new textbook on the music of the Beatles, WHAT GOES ON (co-authored with Dr. Walter Everett), appears soon from Oxford Univesrity Press. Specialties: Multi-Media Journalism, Social Media Beatle scholar, rock history Public Speaker: censorship in the arts (JFS Speakers Agency) Classical pianist: MM Eastman School 1985 BA/BM Oberlin College/Conservatory of Music (English honors, piano)