David Dalton

David Dalton is a journalist, cultural historian, and biographer whose writing has followed major figures in rock music and twentieth-century popular culture. Who Is That Man examines Bob Dylan by tracing the identities, stories, and deliberate self-inventions attached to the songwriter across his career. Hachette identifies Dalton as a founding editor of Rolling Stone and describes the biography’s use of testimony from friends and eyewitnesses including Marianne Faithfull, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Stampfel, and Nat Hentoff. Publishers Weekly independently catalogues and reviews the biography under its fuller subtitle, In Search of the Real Bob Dylan. Dalton does not treat the subject as a stable personality waiting to be uncovered; instead, he considers how music, public image, biography, and myth continually reshape one another. Readers of Who Is That Man receive both a chronological encounter with Dylan’s changing career and a critic’s examination of the stories through which the performer has been interpreted.