Richard Buskin

Richard Buskin is a New York Times bestselling author and freelance journalist who specializes in pop culture, music, film, and television. A native of London, England, who relocated to America in 1995, he has written 30 non-fiction books, including biographies and autobiographies of The Beatles, Whitney Houston, Sheryl Crow, Marilyn Monroe, Phyllis Diller, Stefanie Powers, Congresswomen Linda and Loretta Sánchez, and the world's most famous record producers and engineers. A co-author and consulting editor on the Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music and the Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, Richard has contributed articles to newspapers and magazines around the globe, ranging from the New York Post and Sydney Morning Herald to Playboy, Paris Match, Billboard, Melody Maker, and Sound On Sound, while interviewing anyone from Mick Jagger, David Bowie, and Roger Daltrey to Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Ginger Rogers, Nicholas Cage, and Roger Moore. In addition, he has written press releases and publicity bios for the likes of Aerosmith and Michael Jackson, and appeared on TV shows such as CBS's Entertainment Tonight, A&E's Biography, E! Entertainment's True Hollywood Story, AMC's Backstory, and the BBC Television News. He lives in Chicago.