The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: `Far away from Myself'

In 2016, it was announced that Bob Dylan had sold his personal archive to the George Kaiser Foundation in Tulsa, Oklahoma, reportedly for $22 million. As the boxes began to arrive, the Foundation asked Clinton Heylin—author of the acclaimed Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades and 'perhaps the world's authority on all things Dylan' (Rolling Stone)—to assess the material they had received.

What he discovered in Tulsa, alongside insights gleaned from other papers recently made accessible by Sony and the Dylan office, so profoundly altered his understanding of the artist, particularly his creative process, that he became convinced a completely new biography was essential. It transpires that much of what previous biographers—including Dylan himself—have stated is incorrect; often, it's a case of 'Print the Legend.'

This volume marks the second instalment of the definitive biography (following A Restless Hungry Feeling) of one of contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures: a musical revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winner, and chart-topping recording artist. Clinton Heylin's meticulously researched, all-encompassing, and consistently revelatory account of these fascinating early years is the closest we will ever get to a definitive life of an artist who has been a lodestar of popular culture for six decades.