No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan by Robert Shelton
Essential reading for anyone interested in Bob Dylan. Newsday . Robert Shelton wrote the rave review of Bob Dylan in the New York Times that is generally credited with being the piece that discovered him in 1961. Twenty-five years later, Shelton, who had followed Dylan's career faithfully, published No Direction Home . Here is the empathetic and rather magnificent ( Washington Post Book World ) story of Dylan, musician and phenomenon.