Mark Ribowsky

The first biography of soul pioneer Isaac Hayes, whose groundbreaking music provided the foundation for hip-hop and a new racial paradigm....

Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1997, Don Shula remains the winningest coach of all time with 347 career victories and the only undefeated season in NFL history. But before he became the architect of the Dolphins dynasty, he was a hardworking kid selling fish on the banks of Lake Erie....

When he died suddenly at the age of 26, Otis Redding (1941-1967) had already become the conscience of a new kind of music....

No family in the history of American sports has ascended to the storybook level of greatness and royal succession quite like the Mannings. Biographer Mark Ribowsky traces their roots from red-clay Mississippi....

After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of 29, Hank Williams - a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star - instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr....

The Everly Brothers—aka Don and Phil to fans with an intimate appreciation for them—seemed to exist almost as an apparition. Emerging within the formative era for young Baby Boomers during the blandly regimented '50s, they were a ubiquitous presence.

In this remarkable biography by acclaimed author Mark Ribowsky, Bill Withers, the most accidental music supernova, is brought to life in vivid detail, told with insights from those who knew him throughout his short but incredibly impactful career....