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Robert Greenfield (born 1946) is an American author, journalist and screenwriter.
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Robert Greenfield (born 1946) is an American author, journalist and screenwriter.
Greenfield began his career as a sports writer. He has published book reviews in New West magazine and The New York Times Book Review .
From 1970 to 1972, Greenfield was employed as an associate editor with Rolling Stone's London bureau. During this time he interviewed numerous musicians and writers, including Jack Bruce, John Cale, [1] Neil Young, Elton John, Nico, [1] the Rolling Stones, Jackie Lomax, Leon Russell, Stone the Crows, Woody Allen [2] and Germaine Greer. [3] His 1971 interview with Keith Richards in the south of France at Villa Nellcôte, Villefranche-sur-Mer, was included in Exile, a collection of photographs by Dominique Tarlé (Genesis Publications; 2001).
Greenfield was a popular music critic for Boston After Dark . [4] He was an adjunct professor of composition and literature at the University of San Francisco, and has also taught at Chapman University and Cabrillo College.[ citation needed ]
Prior to joining Rolling Stone, he worked as a freelance journalist for Eye and Cavalier . A 1969 Eye article profiled early free-form radio at WFMU in East Orange, New Jersey and other locations. [5] Esquire , Playboy , and GQ have published his short fiction.
Greenfield writes primarily on pop culture, and has published two novels. His first novel was Haymon’s Crowd (1978). Temple (1983) is a semi-autobiographical book and play about a young man who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor and obsessed with soul music.
In 2000, his one-man play, Bill Graham Presents, ran at the Canon Theater in Los Angeles. It was based on the biography Greenfield co-wrote about the rock music promoter. Ron Silver played Graham.
Greenfield lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
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