Chronicles: Volume One

BOOK SUMMARY

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities—smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.

PRAISE

"A remarkable achievement, and like Henry Miller's best personal writings, it is a story that opens up the times that it portrays, and then reveals the possibilities of the human spirit." —Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone

"Another side of Bob Dylan emerges in Chronicles: Volume One, a candid memoir that pulls the veil of mystique from pop culture's reluctant icon to reveal a creative giant unlocking his destiny." —USA Today

"Surprise, surprise: Chronicles: Volume One, a memoir tapped out over three years on a manual typewriter, turns out to be the work of a masterful essayist, a compelling cultural observer and, yes, a poet masquerading as trapeze artist." —The Washington Post

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback 
320 pages
Non-fiction
8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.9 in T | 0.6 lb