Bob Spitz

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Arts & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Cooking, Food & Wine

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Bob Spitz is an American writer and author best known for his celebrity biographies. He is the author of The Making of Superstars, Barefoot in Babylon, Dylan, Shoot Out the Lights, The Saucier's Apprentice and a Beatles biography entitled The Beatles: The Biography. Apparently, The Beatles had a number of errors, which the publisher corrected in second printings [1]. When he was asked about these errors by the editor of Beatles fan zine Daytrippin‘, Spitz replied with a verbally abusive letter, saying "You need an enema. Really! Do something useful with your life."[2]

Spitz has also written articles which have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler, Men's Journal, In Style, Esquire and the Washington Post. He has on...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 2,530 ratings · 295 reviews · 18 distinct works

	The Beatles 4.12 avg rating — 2,275 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Saucier's Apprentice: One Long Strange Trip Through the Great Cooking Schools of Europe 2.88 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Dylan: A Biography 3.45 avg rating — 58 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Beatles, Beatlemania, and the Music that Changed the World 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969 by Bob Spitz, Robert S. Spitz 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Shoot Out the Lights: The Amazing, Improbable, Exhilarating Saga of the 1969-70 New York Knicks 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	The making of superstars: Artists and executives of the rock music business 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1978	My rating:
	Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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