BIO

Aidan Levy is the author of Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins and Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed, and editor of Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters. A former Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellow, his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, JazzTimes, The Nation, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the First-Year Writing Program at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, where he served as co-convener of the African American Studies Colloquium and worked with the Center for Jazz Studies. For ten years, he was the baritone saxophonist in the Stan Rubin Orchestra. He lives with his family in West Hartford, Connecticut.