Gavin Edwards (writer)


Gavin Edwards is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. He is the author of twelve books, including the biographies Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind and The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing. Edwards has written for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Wired, among other publications.

Biography

Edwards was born in New York to Scilla and James Edwards. He graduated from Yale University in 1990 with a BA in English.
Focused primarily on music, Edwards began working as a contributing editor and associate editor at Details in 1991. In 1999, he began writing for Rolling Stone, where, as a contributing editor, he has written 12 cover stories.
Edwards published his first book of misheard lyrics in 1995. Titled 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, it was published by Touchstone Books. Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, which Edwards wrote with Travis Barker, was released in October 2015.
Edwards' 2016 book, The Tao of Bill Murray, consisted of a brief biography of Bill Murray, a 106-page filmography of 59 films, and a breakdown of the "10 Principles of Bill," a "kind of existentialist/Zen mashup that preaches a heightened awareness of the present."
Edwards and his wife, curator Jennifer Sudul Edwards, live in Charlotte, North Carolina with their two sons.