Nick Tosches

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Nick Tosches (born 1949) is an American writer, journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet.

After different odd-jobs, Tosches started writing with poetry and rock-'n'-roll magazines, including Creem and Fusion.

Tosches' second book, Hellfire, published in 1982, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, established him as a writer of groundbreaking significance. His subsequent biographies have covered the lives of Dean Martin, Michele Sindona, Sonny Liston, Emmett Miller (one of the great mysteries of popular culture), and Arnold Rothstein.

Tosches has also published a collection of poetry, Chaldea, and the novels: Cut Numbers, Trinities and In the Hand of Dante. The latter is considered, by the author himself, to be his finest work. He has been published in Vanity Fair and Esquire. The Nick Tosches Reader collects many writings of his over the years.

[edit] Partial Bibliography

Country, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80713-0 on country music
Hellfire, 1982 for the first edition, Grove Press, USA, ISBN 0-8021-3566-8 on Jerry Lee Lewis
Unsung Heroes of Rock N' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis, 1984 for the first edition, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80891-9
Power On Earth, 1986, Arbor House Pub Co, USA, ISBN 0-87795-796-7 on Michele Sindona
- (Italian) Il mistero Sindona. le memorie e le rivelazioni di Michele Sindona (Published in Milano by editor SugarCo in 1986. 316 pages) Dewey class: 332.1
- (German) Geschäfte mit dem Vatikan. Die Affäre Sindona. München 1987. ISBN 3-426-03970-2
Cut Numbers, 1988 for the first edition, Back Bay Books, USA, ISBN 0-316-89658-6, novel
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, 1992 for the first edition, Delta, USA, ISBN 0-385-33429-X on Dean Martin
Trinities, 1994, St Martins Mass Market Paper, USA, ISBN 0-312-95689-4, novel
Chaldea and I Dig Girls, 1999, C U Z Editions, ISBN 0-9666328-5-0, poetry
The Devil And Sonny Liston, 2000, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89775-2 on Sonny Liston
The Nick Tosches Reader, 2000, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-80969-9
Where Dead Voices Gather, 2001, Little, Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89507-5
The Last Opium Den, 2002, Bloomsbury , USA, ISBN 1-58234-227-X
In The Hand Of Dante, 2002, Little Brown, USA, ISBN 0-316-89524-5, novel official website on Dante & Nick Tosches
King of the Jews, 2005, HarperCollins, USA, ISBN 0-641-77194-0

[edit] Discography

Blue Eyes And Exit Wounds, website spoken word and poetry CD with Hubert Selby Jr., 1998
Nick & Homer, with Homer Henderson, 1998
Fuckthelivingfuckthedead, 2001, DSA, France
For the taking: Vol. I from CHALDEA with Rick whitehurst 2006