william mckeen

contributing writer

William McKeen is a professor and chair of the UF Department of Journalism, as well as the author of six books and editor of four more. His latest book, Outlaw Journalist, is a biography of the late writer Hunter S. Thompson. He is working on an anthology about childhood in Florida. Highway 61 is a memoir of a 6,000-mile road trip with his college-aged son. Rock and Roll is Here to Stay, a mammoth music history, appeared in 2000. McKeen has written four other books: critical biographies of Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. He has written for Gourmet, Maxim, American History, Holiday, The Saturday Evening Post, and the World Book Encyclopedia. He was a copy editor and reporter at several newspapers, staff editor at The Saturday Evening Post and production editor at The American Spectator. www.williammckeen.com