Fred Goodman is the author of The Mansion on the Hill: Dylan, Young, Geffen, Springsteen, and the Head-on Collison of Rock and Commerce, which was a New York Times notable book and received the Ralph J. Gleason Award for the Best Music Book of 1997, and The Secret City Woodlawn Cemetery and the Buried History of New York. A freelance journalist, his work appears in Rolling Stone, where he was an editor, The New York Times, and most national magazines. He and his family live in White Plains, New York.