About Nick Tosches
Nicholas P. Tosches was an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet. His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis, Hellfire, was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written." Tosches' first book, Country: The Biggest Music in America (later retitled Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll), was first published in 1977. He did not attend college but was published for the first time in Fusion magazine at 19 years old. And it's funny because hanging out with him is very much like being in one of his books." Depp's enthusiasm for Tosches's works even goes so far that he bought his literary estate for 1.2 million dollars. 1982 – Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story.
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