Michael Azerrad

Michael Azerrad is the author of The Amplified Come As You Are (HarperOne, 2023), an extensively re-investigated version of his 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, and Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Little, Brown, 2001). A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the Yale Review, the New York Times, amongst others. He was the founding editor of eMusic, and edited Bob Mould's autobiography See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody (Little, Brown, 2011). He's also an “avid hiker, an enjoyer of pre-1970s movies, and a fan of every animal.”