Michael Gray is recognized as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan and is an expert on rock'n'roll history and the blues, with a special interest in pre-war blues. His massive Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan has been reprinted several times since being published by Continuum in 2000. He lives in Yorkshire, England.
'likely to become the biggest selling Dylan book of all, the Encylopedia majors on its author's unparalleled expertise, his critical judgment and a ready intelligence and authorial finesse. In three quarters of a million words, he paints a massive canvas. Over 730 pages, its daunting breadth of coverage and sheer level of detail is deeply impressive. From today, Michael Gray's new Encyclopedia is destined to be the most important Bob Dylan book, bar none.' The Dylan Daily (website) 'Michael Gray is arguably the pre-eminent Dylan scholar - enviably knowledgeable, scabrously tart and enthusiastically iconoclastic [and his] irreverence is one of the joys of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. It won't be the last word on Dylan but it is easily the most comprehensive. Sunday Herald (Scotland) 'A corker. A great labour of love. It stands comparison with David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Cinema as a sustained piece of entertaining, opinionated, heartfelt and argumentative writing. The book is thronged with life [and] leads you irresistibly from one connection to another. Throughout there is a rich sense of what these people have meant to Dylan - and what he has meant to them, and to all of us who have merely listened and been moved. London Evening Standard
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