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Robert Greenfield, born in 1946, is an American author, journalist, and screenwriter who began as a sports writer before becoming an associate editor at Rolling Stone's London bureau from 1970 to 1972. He is known for biographies of rock figures including Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, and Ahmet Ertegun, and for his on-the-ground reporting on the Rolling Stones.
Greenfield wrote three books connected to the Rolling Stones. S.T.P.: A Journey Through America With the Rolling Stones was published in 1974. Exile on Main St.: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones appeared in 2006. Ain't It Time We Said Goodbye, a memoir of the Rolling Stones UK Tour 1971, was published in 2014. His 1971 interview with Keith Richards at Villa Nellcôte was also included in Dominique Tarlé's photo collection Exile, published by Genesis Publications in 2001.
Robert Greenfield won the National Jewish Book Award in 1983 for Temple, a semi-autobiographical novel about a young man who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor and obsessed with soul music. The book was also adapted as a play.
Before joining Rolling Stone's London bureau in 1970, Greenfield worked as a freelance journalist for Eye magazine and Cavalier. A 1969 Eye article profiled early free-form radio at WFMU in East Orange, New Jersey.
Robert Greenfield was a co-writer of The '60s, a dramatic mini-series that received an Emmy nomination. He also produced three short documentary films that are on permanent display at the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
The Last Sultan: The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun, published in 2012, is Greenfield's biography of the Atlantic Records founder. It follows the arc of Ertegun's life and career as a central figure in American popular music.