A former associate editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone, Robert Greenfield is the author of several classic rock books, among them S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary, Jerry Garcia, Ahmet Ertegun, and Augustus Owsley Stanley III. He is the co-author of Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. He also co-wrote Mother American Night with the late John Perry Barlow. An award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, he has published short fiction in GQ, Esquire, and Playboy. He lives in California.