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An award-winning journalist, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, Robert Greenfield is the author of nine books, among them the classic STP: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones. Both his novel Temple, which won the National Jewish Book Award and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Timothy Leary: A Biography, which he spent ten years researching and writing, were reviewed favorably on the front page of the New York Sunday Times Book Review.

In May, 2009, Da Capo Press/Perseus Books will publish A Day In The Life: One Family, The Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties, an iconic account of the social revolution of that time. Dark Star, Mr. Greenfield’s critically acclaimed oral biography of Grateful Dead lead guitarist Jerry Garcia was re-published in January, 2009 by Harper Books with a new introduction by Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead. Film rights to the book have been purchased and Mr. Greenfield is involved in the production of an independent film based upon it.

Greenfield is also the author of Bill Graham: My Life Inside Rock and Out (co-written with Bill Graham) which won both a Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence and has been re-published by Da Capo Press with a new introduction by Pete Townshend of The Who. Mr. Greenfield’s one-character play about Bill Graham was named the Outstanding Theatre Presentation at the Aspen Comedy Arts Festival and was produced at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles with Ron Silver as Bill Graham. Greenfield is currently involved in a feature film project based on Bill Graham’s life as well as an HBO series about the early days of Rolling Stone magazine.

A former Associate Editor of the London bureau of Rolling Stone, Greenfield’s journalism has been published in eight different anthologies. His extensive profile of Owsley Stanley, "The LSD King," appeared in Rolling Stone magazine’s fortieth anniversary Summer of Love edition. Having written the tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, that appeared in the magazine after Ertegun’s death in 2006 as well as the tribute to Jerry Wexler after his death in 2008, Greenfield is now researching the authorized biography of Ahmet Ertegun which will be published by Simon & Schuster.

The play Mr. Greenfield wrote based on his novel Temple, featuring Judd Nelson and Ron Rifkin, was presented off-Broadway in New York City at the American Jewish Theatre. Mr. Greenfield has reviewed books for the New York Sunday Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, and California magazine. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, GQ, and Playboy magazines. STP: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones has been re-published twice in England as well as in America by Da Capo Press in a thirtieth anniversary edition.

In November, 2006, Da Capo Press/Perseus Books published Exile On Main Street: A Season In Hell with the Rolling Stones, Mr. Greenfield’s account of his time with the band thirty-five years ago in the south of France as they recorded their classic double album. An excerpt from the book was featured in Rolling Stone. The book has been published in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Brazil.

Having co-written the Emmy Award nominated mini-series, The Sixties, Greenfield is a long time member of the Writers Guild who has written feature film scripts for Columbia, Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox as well as television movies and mini-series for the NBC, HBO, FX, TNT, and Lifetime networks. He worked as Creative Consultant/Producer for three short documentary films that are on permanent exhibit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Greenfield has taught English at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California; film at Chapman College in Monterey, California; and served as an Adjunct Professor of Composition and Literature at the University of San Francisco. He lives in California.

Jack Bruce And His Lifetime
Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, January 1971

John Cale : Shards of Velvet Afloat in London
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, February 1971

Crazy Horse : Neil Young: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Restraint
Profile and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, April 1970

Elton John Steams 'Em Up
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, November 1970

Jackie Lomax is Leaving London
Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, November 1970

Nico : Shards of Velvet Afloat in London
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, February 1971

Rolling Stones, The : Goodbye Great Britain: The Rolling Stones On Tour
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, April 1971

Rolling Stones, The : The Rolling Stones Go South
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, August 1972

Rolling Stones, The : The Rolling Stones Tour: Rock & Roll On The Road Again
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, July 1972

Rolling Stones, The : The Rolling Stones: Jumpin' Gas Flash Bops In Heartland
Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, July 1972

Rolling Stones, The : The Stones in LA: Main St. Exiles
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, April 1972

Rolling Stones, The : Villa Nellcote: Tommy Weber Arrives at the Rolling Stones' French Stronghold
Book Excerpt by Robert Greenfield, 'A Day in the Life' (Da Capo), July 2009

Leon Russell: Working Hard At the Lyceum
Live Review by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, April 1971

Stone The Crows : Brash Tales of Stone The Crows
Profile and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, January 1972

Velvet Underground : Shards of Velvet Afloat in London
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, February 1971

Velvet Underground : The Velvet Underground c/o New York, NY
Report and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, March 1970

Neil Young: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Restraint
Profile and Interview by Robert Greenfield, Fusion, April 1970

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