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“Semi-literate”: Bob Dylan biographers trade insults over authenticity of each other’s work
Bob Dylan biographies have become indirectly embroiled in a row about whose storytelling is better.Howard Sounes, who wrote the 2001 bestseller Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, has responded to Clinton Heylin’s insults in The Double Life Of Bob Dylan Vol 1 1941-1966: A Restless, Hungry Feeling. In his introduction, Heylin calls Sounes a “professional dirtdigger” who had written a “semi-literate” book.Sounes has reacted to Heylin’s comments, telling The Guardian that Heylin is “a clunky, self-indulgent writer” whose new Dylan biography is “incredibly boring”.The biographer said: “It’s not really polite to tell other writers they’re bad writers, because they tend to fling it back to you.
