Amy 27

When singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse died tragically on July, 23, 2011, at the age of twenty-seven, she joined the infamous 27 Club, whose members include Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain. Howard Sounes, author of Fab and Down the Highway, conducted interviews with more than 180 people, and his research yields new insights into the lives of the members of the 27 Club. Cutting through the record company PR and tabloid gossip to reveal the real Amy Winehouse, and with unprecedented access to friends and family, including Amy's ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil, and her last boyfriend, Reg Traviss, Sounes reveals striking factors in common among Winehouse and the other artists who died so young. Amy, 27 will be published to coincide with the second anniversary of her death and with the lead-up to the twentieth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain. HOWARD SOUNES is the author of several well-known non-fiction works, including the noted biographies Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, and Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life. He is also the author of Seventies, a history of the arts in that decade, and the true-crime bestseller Fred & Rose. His books are also published in the U.K. and the U.S., and in twenty-two foreign languages. Sounes appears regularly on radio and television in connection with his subjects. He lives in London, England.