Scherman, Tony

Tony Scherman is the author of "Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story", which won a 2000 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing. He was an editor at "Musician" and "Audio" and a contributing editor at "Life"; he has written about art, music, American history, and American culture for dozens of publications, including the "New York Times Magazine", the "New York Times" Arts and Leisure section, "Atlantic Monthly", "Rolling Stone", "Smithsonian", "American Heritage", "New York", "Entertainment Weekly", and "People". He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in