Buddy Holly: A Biography
By Ellis Amburn
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In Buddy Holly, best-selling biographer Ellis Amburn brings this musical genius, this flamboyant West Texas rebel, back to life. Having interviewed over two hundred people, Ellis Amburn has written the most revealing and definitive biography of Holly's life. The result is a triumphant American work.
Ellis Amburn
Ellis Amburn worked as a reporter-researcher at Newsweek before becoming a book editor at Putnam, where he edited Jack Kerouac, John Le Carre, William Golding, Edward Albee, and Paul Gallico. He was also editor-in-chief at Delacorte and William Morrow, and edited/collaborated on books by Shelley Winters, Sammy Davis, Jr., Lana Wood, and with Priscilla Presley on her #1 national bestseller Elvis and Me. Mr. Amburn is the author of The Sexiest Man Alive: A Biography of Warren Beatty; Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story; Pearl: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin; Buddy Holly; and Subterranean Kerouac.
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Reviews for Buddy Holly
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good account of Holly's life ruined only by the authors desire to make some unnecessary salacious revelations that cannot be supported by the sources quoted and are clearly made up accounts by the story tellers. A shame, as this really is rivetting account of Buddy's life that needed no 'never before told' revelations of this nature. It makes you wonder what else here is conjecture. That said, this book tells his story well and in depth. And what a story it is.