Anthony DeCurtis

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Anthony DeCurtis is an American author and music critic, who has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Relix and other publications. He is the author of In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work (Hal Leonard Publishing Co, 2005) and Rocking My Life Away: Writing About Music and Other Matters (Duke University Press, 1998), and editor of Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture (Duke University Press, 1992). He co-edited the third editions of the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll and the Rolling Stone Album Guide. His essay accompanying the Eric Clapton box set Crossroads won a Grammy in the "Best Album Notes" category, and on three occasions he has won ASCAP's Deems Taylor awards for excellence in writing about music. He has appeared as a commentator on MTV, VH1, the Today Show and many other news and entertainment programs. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University, teaches every fall in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania, and directs the arts and culture concentration at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He has just completed editing "Blues & Chaos: The Robert Palmer Anthology" (tentative title), a collection of writing by the late music critic for The New York Times and the author of "Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta."