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A New York Times bestselling author, Richard Buskin is also a full-time
freelance journalist, specializing in music, film,
television, pop culture and sociopolitical affairs. Since the mid-Eighties, he has conducted
several thousand interviews and written regular feature articles for a wide variety of publications in
the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Australia, dealing with all aspects
of the entertainment business: the artistic, the technical and the entrepreneurial.
A native of London, England, who relocated to America in 1995, Richard
has had his work published in newspapers ranging from the New York Post and the Sydney Morning Herald to Britain's Observer, Independent and Daily Mail, as well as publications such as Playboy and Paris Match. He has also written for numerous music magazines around the world, including Billboard, Spin, Musician, Mix, Melody Maker, Sound On Sound and Performance (for which he was a senior editor and UK bureau chief), and movie journals such as Film Review and Films & Filming, in addition to authoring more than 15 books.
Among the most recent are Inside Tracks: A First-Hand History of Popular Music from the World's Greatest Record Producers and Engineers (Avon Books, 1999); Blonde Heat: The Sizzling Screen Career of Marilyn Monroe (Billboard Books, 2001); Sheryl Crow: No Fool to This Game (Billboard Books, 2002); Phyllis Diller´s autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy (Penguin/Tarcher, 2005); Effortless Style
with celebrity fashion stylist June Ambrose (Simon & Schuster,
2006); Dream in Color: How the Sánchez Sisters are Making History in Congress with Congresswomen Linda and Loretta Sánchez (Grand Central, 2008); and Die Trying: One Man's Quest to Conquer the Seven Summits with
mountaineer Bo Parfet (Amacom, February 2009). The co-author and consulting editor on
the Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music (2003) and the Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock (Flame
Tree, 2006), he is presently collaborating with actress/animal conservationist Stefanie Powers on her autobiography One From the Hart, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in October 2010.
Richard has provided sleeve notes for records and videos; penned
narrative material for DVD; written press releases and publicity bios
for the likes of Aerosmith and Michael Jackson; served as a researcher
and on-screen entertainment expert for television networks in the US
and the UK; lectured journalism students at Chicago’s Northwestern
University; and been interviewed on numerous TV and radio shows, including CBS's Entertainment Tonight, A&E's Biography, E! Entertainment's True Hollywood Story, AMC's Backstory and the BBC Television News. He
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