T Acclaimed biographer Howard Sounes interviewed more than 250 key people in Dylan's life--including fellow musicians, former lovers, and family members--and gained access to previously unseen documentary material. From this mass of exclusive information he has constructed a compelling, engagingly fast-paced, and revelatory biography, taking the reader on a journey from Dylan's childhood in a Minnesota mining town, through his rise to fame in the 1960s and the creation of the songs that have made him an American icon, to his life in the present day.