Ben Greenman

Ben Greenman is a New York Times bestselling author of both fiction and nonfiction. His novels and short-story collections include The Slippage and Superbad. He collaborated with Questlove 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 publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, McSweeney’s, and Rolling Stone. The owner of thousands of recordings of Prince and Prince-related songs, Greenman has been listening to and writing about Prince since the mid-eighties. With the passion of an obsessive fan and the skills of a critic, journalist, and novelist, in Dig If You Will the Picture: Funk, Sex, God and Genius in the Music of Prince (Henry Holt and Co.), Greenman mines his encyclopedic knowledge of Prince’s music to tell both his story and the story of his paradigm-shifting ideas. His take on Prince is the autobiography of a generation and its ideas. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said “Greenman’s brilliant book celebrates a musician who crammed substance into every corner of his music.”