Why should todays students be interested in a dead 70s singer/songwriter?
Most of today’s college students straddle the age of 20, and that’s the age that Goodman was diagnosed with leukemia, in 1969. He wasn’t supposed to last another few months, let alone a year or two. It’s a miracle that he stretched his life another 15-plus years. While music suffuses this biography, the theme throughout is how do we live in the face of death? It’s a horrible gift to have a death sentence, but it is a gift, and would that we all – including college students – could live our lives with the greater awareness of our mortality, as Steve Goodman was forced to do. Is this your first book? No. In 1996, I cut my teeth on biography by writing, designing and self-publishing a 250-page biography of Karolyn Grimes, who as a child played Zuzu in the 1946 film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.” She appeared in 15 movies as a child. She is now 66 and living in Fall City, east of Seattle. She’s become a close friend. Also, in 1987, I edited, designed, co-wrote and managed production of “
