Sly Stone was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943. He had brief careers as a doo-wop singer, a radio DJ, and a record producer before founding and fronting Sly and the Family Stone. Mercurial, idiosyncratic, and inimitably brilliant, Sly Stone is a true American original. He lives in Los Angeles. This is his first book.
Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad; he was Questlove's collaborator on Mo’ Meta Blues and Something to Food About; and he has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in numerous publications.
Sly Stone was born Sylvester Stewart in Denton, Texas, in 1943. He had brief careers as a doo-wop singer, a radio DJ, and a record producer before founding and fronting Sly and the Family Stone. Mercurial, idiosyncratic, and inimitably brilliant, Sly Stone is a true American original. He lives in Los Angeles.
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is his first book.
Ben Greenman is a
New York Times bestselling author and
New Yorker contributor who has written both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include
The Slippage and
Superbad. He has been Questlove's collaborator on a series of books, including
Mo’ Meta Blues, Creative Quest, and
Music Is History, and he has written memoirs with Sly Stone, George Clinton, and Brian Wilson. His writing has appeared in numerous publications.
Questlove is a six-time Grammy Award–winning musician, Academy Award–winning filmmaker, drummer, DJ, producer, director, culinary entrepreneur,
New York Times bestselling author, cofounder of the Roots, and the musical director for
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where the Roots serves as the house band. He is the author of the
New York Times bestsellers
Mo’ Meta Blues,
Creative Quest,
Music Is History, and his first children’s book series,
The Rhythm of Time, as well as the James Beard Award–nominated
somethingtofoodabout,
Mixtape Potluck, and the Grammy-nominated audiobooks
Creative Quest and
Music Is History. Questlove made his directorial debut with the Academy Award–, Grammy Award–, and BAFTA Award–winning documentary film
Summer of Soul, which broke the record for the highest-selling documentary to come out of the Sundance Film Festival. Questlove is a cofounder of Two One Five Entertainment. He is the publisher of AUWA Books, an imprint of MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
