Peter Ames Carlin is a writer and the author of seven books, most recently Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run (Doubleday, 2025), a New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. His other books include The Name of This Band is REM (Doubleday, 2024), Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros Records (Holt, 2022), and Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon (St. Martin’s, 2017), as well as biographies of Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson. His writing appears in publications such as People magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Oregonian, where he was a television columnist and features writer.
A regular speaker on music, writing and popular culture, Peter lives in Seattle, Washington.
Writer and biographer Peter Ames Carlin shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that Bruce Springsteen’s lifelong balance of talent, art, and artifice has shaped who he is – and all he...
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