The Author: David Kinney

I spent the early years of my working career at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Associated Press, where I wrote about all kinds of things: bank mergers and murder trials and big-time college football. Later, I moved onto the Newark Star-Ledger for a four-year tour of duty covering the state’s notoriously bare-knuckled political scene, where I had the very good fortune of contributing to the paper's Pulitzer-Prize winning reporting on the resignation of Gov. Jim McGreevey.

Over the years, I’ve had stories in newspapers big and small, from The New York Times to the Saskatchewan Leader-Post.

The Big One is my first book. I’m now working on a new one for Simon & Schuster about Bob Dylan and his vast community of followers, which has involved hanging out with writers, musicians, tourgoers, academics, Ph.D. candidates, bootleg collectors and Bob imitators. The aim is to use my travels to say something about why he matters so much to so many.

I live outside Philadelphia in Haddonfield, N.J., with my two children and my wife, Monica Yant Kinney,  metro columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.