Chronicles, Volume One [ISBN 0-7432-2815-4], is the first part of Bob Dylan's planned 3-volume memoir. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Published on October 5, 2004 by Simon & Schuster, the 304 page volume covers selected points from Dylan's long career. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Simon & Schuster Inc, a division of CBS Corporation, is a Publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L The book spent 19 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction books. [1]
The abridged audio version of the book is read by actor Sean Penn. Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an Academy Award - and Golden Globe -winning American Film Actor The unabridged version is read by Nick Landrum.
Chronicles, Volume One was one of five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Biography/Autobiography category for the 2004 publishing year. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC is an American non-profit organization of approximately seven hundred active book reviewers
In an interview conducted by Jonathan Lethem, published in Rolling Stone [2], Dylan said he was very moved by the book's reception. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published "Most people who write about music, they have no idea what it feels like to play it. But with the book I wrote, I thought, ‘The people who are writing reviews of this book, man, they know what the hell they’re talking about. ’ It spoils you … they know more about it than me. The reviews of this book, some of ’em almost made me cry—in a good way. I’d never felt that from a music critic ever. "